Spectral estimation via adaptive filterbank methods: a unified analysis and a new algorithm

  • Authors:
  • Erik G. Larsson;Petre Stoica;Jian Li

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, P.O. Box 116130 458 ENG Bldg. 33, Gainesville, FL;Department of Systems and Control, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, P.O. Box 116130 458 ENG Bldg. 33, Gainesville, FL

  • Venue:
  • Signal Processing - Signal processing with heavy-tailed models
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The problem of estimating the amplitude spectrum of a signal is of interest in a number of applications ranging from radar imaging to time-series analysis. The so-called adaptive filterbank-based nonparametric spectral estimators have recently received renewed interest as potential solutions to this problem. In essence, the adaptive filterbank methods determine an estimate of the spectrum for a frequency of interest by computing a finite impulse response filter according to a certain criterion and fitting a sinusoid to the filtered data sequence. In this paper, we first analyze the asymptotic estimation accuracy of the amplitude spectrum for various filterbank estimators. Next, we propose a new adaptive filterbank estimator based on a minimum mean square error criterion. Numerical examples indicate that the new estimator can have a better resolution capability than previously known filterbank estimators.