Two-set adaptive detection-estimation of Gaussian sources in Gaussian noise

  • Authors:
  • Yuri I. Abramovich;Nicholas K. Spencer;Pavel Turcaj

  • Affiliations:
  • Intelligence, Surv. and Reconnaissance Div. (ISRD), Def. Sci. and Tech. Org. (DSTO), Edinburgh, Australia and Cooperative Res. Ctr. for Sensor Signal and Info. Proc. (CSSIP), SPRI Bldg., Tech. Pk. ...;Cooperative Research Centre for Sensor Signal and Information Processing (CSSIP), SPRI Building, Technology Park Adelaide, Mawson Lakes, SA 5095, Australia;Cooperative Research Centre for Sensor Signal and Information Processing (CSSIP), SPRI Building, Technology Park Adelaide, Mawson Lakes, SA 5095, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Signal Processing - Special section: New trends and findings in antenna array processing for radar
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We consider detection-estimation of Gaussian sources in coloured Gaussian noise for scenarios where a training data set is provided in addition to the primary data set that may contain source signals of interest. We propose a generalised likelihood-ratio test technique based on the optimisation of the likelihood ratio (LR) function that involves both data sets. This optimisation problem is non-convex and so requires some assessment of the quality of its results. The proposed assessment is based on the previously introduced scenario-free lower bound for maximum LR. Joint optimum processing of the two data sets is shown in general to be different from the conventional adaptive technique, whereby the training data set is separately processed, then such estimates are used for primary data processing. We demonstrate that beyond certain threshold conditions, our technique provides an estimation accuracy that is consistent with the corresponding Cramér-Rao bound, whereas maximum likelihood "performance breakdown" is found to occur for scenarios not satisfying such conditions.