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A simple technique is described that provides an improved nearside-farside (NF) method for elastic scattering amplitudes. The technique, involving the novel resummation of a Legendre partial wave series, reduces the importance of unphysical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Anni , J. N. L. Connor , C. Noli

This paper proposes an efficient parameterization of the Room Transfer Function (RTF). Typically, the RTF rapidly varies with varying source and receiver positions, hence requires an impractical number of point to point measurements to…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Prasanga Samarasinghe , Thushara Abhayapala , Mark Poletti , Terence Betlehem

Relative impulse responses between microphones are usually long and dense due to the reverberant acoustic environment. Estimating them from short and noisy recordings poses a long-standing challenge of audio signal processing. In this paper…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Zbynek Koldovsky , Jiri Malek , Sharon Gannot

The data analysis of space-based gravitational wave detectors like Taiji faces significant challenges from non-stationary noise, which compromises the efficacy of traditional frequency-domain analysis. This work proposes a unified framework…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-23 Minghui Du , Ziren Luo , Peng Xu

We present here an overview of the Fourier Transform Scanning Tunneling spectroscopy technique (FT-STS). This technique allows one to probe the electronic properties of a two-dimensional system by analyzing the standing waves formed in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 L. Simon , C. Bena , F. Vonau , M. Cranney , D. Aubel

Features based on sparse representation, especially using the synthesis dictionary model, have been heavily exploited in signal processing and computer vision. However, synthesis dictionary learning typically involves NP-hard sparse coding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Bihan Wen , Saiprasad Ravishankar , Yoram Bresler

Sensing via a mechanical frequency shift is a powerful measurement tool, and, therefore, understanding and mitigating frequency noise affecting mechanical resonators is imperative. Thermomechanical noise fundamentally limits mechanical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Sofia C. Brown , Ravid Shaniv , Ruomu Zhang , Chris Reetz , Cindy A. Regal

In this paper we describe that the optically pumped frequency standards can have frequency stability beyond the quantum noise limit by detecting the Ramsey resonance through the squeezed light. In this paper we report that instead of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-08 G. M. Saxena

The analysis of non-stationary signals in non-uniformly sampled data is a challenging task. Time-integrated methods, such as the generalised Lomb-Scargle (GLS) periodogram, provide a robust statistical assessment of persistent periodicities…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-09 Ashwini Kulkarni , Santosh Nannuru

The line spectral estimation problem consists in recovering the frequencies of a complex valued time signal that is assumed to be sparse in the spectral domain from its discrete observations. Unlike the gridding required by the classical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Maxime Ferreira Da Costa , Wei Dai

We propose a new algorithm for time stretching music signals based on the theory of nonstationary Gabor frames (NSGFs). The algorithm extends the techniques of the classical phase vocoder (PV) by incorporating adaptive time-frequency (TF)…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Emil Solsbæk Ottosen , Monika Dörfler

Computing the Sparse Fast Fourier Transform(sFFT) of a K-sparse signal of size N has emerged as a critical topic for a long time. The sFFT algorithms decrease the runtime and sampling complexity by taking advantage of the signal inherent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-12 Bin Li , Zhikang Jiang , Jie Chen

Bilinear time-frequency representations (TFRs) provide high-resolution time-varying frequency characteristics of nonstationary signals. However, they suffer from crossterms due to the bilinear nature. Existing crossterm-reduced TFRs focus…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-08 Shuimei Zhang , Yimin D. Zhang

Time-frequency analysis has been applied successfully in many fields. However, the traditional methods, like short time Fourier transform and Cohen distribution, suffer from the low resolution or the interference of the cross terms. To…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-17 Yingpin Chen , Zhenming Peng , Ali Gholami , Jingwen Yan , Shu Li

We introduce a new method for estimating the Ideal Time-Frequency Representation (ITFR) of complex nonstationary signals. The Reconstructive Ideal Fractional Transform (RIFT) computes a constellation of Continuous Fractional Wavelet…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-03 James M. Cozens , Simon J. Godsill

Seismic attributes calculated by conventional methods are susceptible to noise. Conventional filtering reduces the noise in the cost of losing the spectral bandwidth. The challenge of having a high-resolution and robust signal processing…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 M. Kazemnia Kakhki , W. J. Mansur , K. Aghazadeh

Simultaneous space-time focusing (SSTF) is sometimes claimed to reduce the longitudinal extent of the high-intensity region near the focus, in contradiction to the original work on this topic. Here we seek to address this confusion by using…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-19 Emily Archer , Bangshan Sun , Roman Walczak , Martin Booth , Simon Hooker

This contribution is a follow-up of a recent paper by the authors on adaptive, non-linear time-frequency transforms, focusing on the STFT based transforms. The adaptivity is provided by a focus function, that depends on the analyzed…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Pierre Warion , Bruno Torrésani

Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) relies on the HRV frequency-domain analysis techniques. It requires re-sampling of the inherently unevenly sampled heartbeat time-series (RR tachogram) to produce an evenly sampled time series of the heartbeat.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-08-04 Amin Gasmi

We consider sparseness properties of adaptive time-frequency representations obtained using nonstationary Gabor frames (NSGFs). NSGFs generalize classical Gabor frames by allowing for adaptivity in either time or frequency. It is known that…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-03 Emil Solsbæk Ottosen , Morten Nielsen