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Advances of information-theoretic understanding of sparse sampling of continuous uncoded signals at sampling rates exceeding the Landau rate were reported in recent works. This work examines sparse sampling of coded signals at sub-Landau…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-04 Michael Peleg , Shlomo Shamai

This paper addresses the problem of detecting and characterizing local variability in time series and other forms of sequential data. The goal is to identify and characterize statistically significant variations, at the same time…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Jeffrey D. Scargle , Jay P. Norris , Brad Jackson , James Chiang

Using a semi-parametric approach based on the fourth-order Edgeworth expansion for the unknown signal distribution, we derive an explicit expression for the likelihood detection statistic in the presence of non-normally distributed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Lionel Martellini , Tania Regimbau

Recent work has generalized several results concerning the well-understood spiked Wigner matrix model of a low-rank signal matrix corrupted by additive i.i.d. Gaussian noise to the inhomogeneous case, where the noise has a variance profile.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Debsurya De , Dmitriy Kunisky

In this paper, we focus on the following testing problem: assume that we are given observations of a real-valued signal along the grid $0,1,\ldots,N-1$, corrupted by white Gaussian noise. We want to distinguish between two hypotheses: (a)…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-02 Anatoli Juditsky , Arkadi Nemirovski

Detecting a stochastic gravitational wave background requires that we first understand and model any astrophysical foregrounds. In the millihertz frequency band, the predominate foreground signal will be from unresolved white dwarf binaries…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-23 Matthew R. Adams , Neil J. Cornish

In this paper, we study the system identification problem for sparse linear time-invariant systems. We propose a sparsity promoting block-regularized estimator to identify the dynamics of the system with only a limited number of input-state…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Salar Fattahi , Somayeh Sojoudi

We study the problem of detecting a structured, low-rank signal matrix corrupted with additive Gaussian noise. This includes clustering in a Gaussian mixture model, sparse PCA, and submatrix localization. Each of these problems is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-01-24 Jess Banks , Cristopher Moore , Nicolas Verzelen , Roman Vershynin , Jiaming Xu

Interference detection in gaussian noise is proposed. It can be applied for easy detection and editing of interference lines in radio spectral line observations. One need not know the position of occurence or keep track of interference in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Raju R Baddi

For the discrete-time additive white generalized Gaussian noise channel with a generalized input power constraint, with the respective shape and power parameters >= 1, we derive an upper bound on the optimal block error exponent. Explicit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Sergey Tridenski , Anelia Somekh-Baruch

Motivated by applications in high-dimensional data analysis where strong signals often stand out easily and weak ones may be indistinguishable from the noise, we develop a statistical framework to provide a novel categorization of the data…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-05-02 X. Jessie Jeng

The detection problem in statistical signal processing can be succinctly formulated: Given m (possibly) signal bearing, n-dimensional signal-plus-noise snapshot vectors (samples) and N statistically independent n-dimensional noise-only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-02-26 N. Raj Rao , Jack W. Silverstein

We consider the problem of detecting the presence of a spatially correlated multichannel signal corrupted by additive Gaussian noise (i.i.d across sensors). No prior knowledge is assumed about the system parameters such as the noise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-19 Vidyadhar Upadhya , Devendra Jalihal

In many signal processing applications, including communications, sonar, radar, and localization, a fundamental problem is the detection of a signal of interest in background noise, known as signal detection [1] [2]. A simple version of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Tom Anders , Hiten Prakash Kothari , R. Michael Buehrer

This paper investigates the fundamental limits for detecting a high-dimensional sparse matrix contaminated by white Gaussian noise from both the statistical and computational perspectives. We consider $p\times p$ matrices whose rows and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-01-03 T. Tony Cai , Yihong Wu

Three variants of the statistical complexity function, which is used as a criterion in the problem of detection of a useful signal in the signal-noise mixture, are considered. The probability distributions maximizing the considered variants…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-30 Leonid Berlin , Andrey Galyaev , Pavel Lysenko

In order to analyze data produced by the kilometer-scale gravitational wave detectors that will begin operation early next century, one needs to develop robust statistical tools capable of extracting weak signals from the detector noise.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-06 Jolien D. E. Creighton

This paper considers the problem of estimating a periodic function in a continuous time regression model with an additive stationary gaussian noise having unknown correlation function. A general model selection procedure on the basis of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-11-10 Victor Konev , Serguei Pergamenchtchikov

Additive or multiplicative stationary noise recently became an important issue in applied fields such as microscopy or satellite imaging. Relatively few works address the design of dedicated denoising methods compared to the usual white…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-07-18 Jérôme Fehrenbach , Pierre Weiss

This paper investigates the classical statistical signal processing problem of detecting a signal in the presence of colored noise with an unknown covariance matrix. In particular, we consider a scenario where m-dimensional p possible…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Lahiru D. Chamain , Prathapasinghe Dharmawansa , Saman Atapattu , Chintha Tellambura