• DocumentCode
    924697
  • Title

    Asymptotically robust detection of a known signal in contaminated non-Gaussian noise

  • Author

    Kassam, Saleem A. ; Thomas, John B.

  • Volume
    22
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1976
  • fDate
    1/1/1976 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    22
  • Lastpage
    26
  • Abstract
    The Tukey-Huber contaminated noise model is used toobtain rain-max detectors in the asymptotic case for known signals inadditive noise. According to this model, the noise density f(x) is defined by f(x) = (1 - )g(x) + \\varepsilon h(x) for a given \\varepsilon and density g(x) , with h(x) an arbitrary density from a large class. A general theorem is obtainedspecifying the most robust detector for additive contaminated noisewith g(x) satisfying certain regularity conditions. As an example,detector structures are derived by the application of the theorem for the case where g(x) belongs to the class of generalized Gaussian densities(parameterized by their rates of exponential decay). The sign detector is shown to be the asymptotically most robust detector when g(x) is a double-exponential density.
  • Keywords
    Minimax detection; Signal detection; Additive noise; Degradation; Density functional theory; Detectors; Estimation theory; Gaussian distribution; Gaussian noise; Noise robustness; Statistical analysis; Systems engineering and theory;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9448
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TIT.1976.1055510
  • Filename
    1055510