Browsing by Subject "Hermite-Gaussian function"

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Çok-bileşenli sinyallerin analizi için destek bölge uyarlamalı hermite-gauss açılımı
(IEEE, 2011-04) Alp, Yaşar Kemal; Arıkan, Orhan; Özertem, U.
Zaman-frekans destek bölgesi orijin etrafında dairesel bir alana uyan bir sinyal bileşeni için, Hermite-Gauss açılımı en az sayıda taban fonsiyonu kullanarak en iyi temsili oluşturur. Ancak, orijinden uzakta ve dairesel olmayan zaman-frekans destek noklarına sahip sinyal bileşenleri için Hermite-Gauss açılımının direk uygulanması, çok fazla sayıda Hermite-Gauss fonksiyonunun kullanımını gerektirir. Bu da, eğer ölçüm sinyali gürültü altında kaydedilmişse ya da birçok sinyal bileşeni içeriyorsa, başarısız bileşen kestirimlerine neden olur. Bu problemi çözmek için sinyal bileşenlerinin destek bölgelerini bulup, zaman-frekans düzleminde orijin civarında, dairesel bir bölgeye oturtan ve bu sayede en az sayıda Hermite-Gauss fonksiyonu kullanarak sinyal bileşenlerini başarılı bir şekilde kestiren, tamamen otomatikleştirilmiş bir önişleme yöntemi önermekteyiz. Önişlemenin ardından, kestirilen bileşenlere ters dönüşümler uygulanarak destek bölgeleri eski yerlerine taşınır
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Novel solutions to classical signal processing problems in optimization framework
(2014) Alp, Yaşar Kemal
Novel approaches for three classical signal processing problems in optimization framework are proposed to provide further flexibility and performance improvement. In the first part, a new technique, which uses Hermite-Gaussian (HG) functions, is developed for analysis of signals, whose components have non-overlapping compact time-frequency supports. Once the support of each signal component is properly transformed, HG functions provide optimal representations. Conducted experiments show that proposed method provides reliable identification and extraction of signal components even under severe noise cases. In the second part, three different approaches are proposed for designing a set of orthogonal pulse shapes for ultra-wideband communication systems with wideband antennas. Each pulse shape is modelled as a linear combination of time shifted and scaled HG functions. By solving the constructed optimization problems, high energy pulse shapes, which maintain orthogonality at the receiver with desired timefrequency characteristics are obtained. Moreover, by showing that, derivatives of HG functions can be represented as a linear combination of HGs, a simple optimal correlating receiver structure is proposed. In the third part, two different methods for phase-only control of array antennas based on semidefinite modelling are proposed. First, antenna pattern design problem is formulated as a non-convex quadratically constraint quadratic problem (QCQP). Then, by relaxing the QCQP formulation, a convex semidefinite problem (SDP) is obtained. For moderate size arrays, a novel iterative rank refinement algorithm is proposed to achieve a rank-1 solution for the obtained SDP, which is the solution to the original QCQP formulation. For large arrays an alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) based solution is developed. Conducted experiments show that both methods provide effective phase settings, which generate beam patterns under highly flexible constraints.
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Time-frequency analysis of signals using support adaptive Hermite-Gaussian expansions
(Elsevier, 2012-05-18) Alp, Y. K.; Arıkan, Orhan
Since Hermite-Gaussian (HG) functions provide an orthonormal basis with the most compact time-frequency supports (TFSs), they are ideally suited for time-frequency component analysis of finite energy signals. For a signal component whose TFS tightly fits into a circular region around the origin, HG function expansion provides optimal representation by using the fewest number of basis functions. However, for signal components whose TFS has a non-circular shape away from the origin, straight forward expansions require excessively large number of HGs resulting to noise fitting. Furthermore, for closely spaced signal components with non-circular TFSs, direct application of HG expansion cannot provide reliable estimates to the individual signal components. To alleviate these problems, by using expectation maximization (EM) iterations, we propose a fully automated pre-processing technique which identifies and transforms TFSs of individual signal components to circular regions centered around the origin so that reliable signal estimates for the signal components can be obtained. The HG expansion order for each signal component is determined by using a robust estimation technique. Then, the estimated components are post-processed to transform their TFSs back to their original positions. The proposed technique can be used to analyze signals with overlapping components as long as the overlapped supports of the components have an area smaller than the effective support of a Gaussian atom which has the smallest time-bandwidth product. It is shown that if the area of the overlap region is larger than this threshold, the components cannot be uniquely identified. Obtained results on the synthetic and real signals demonstrate the effectiveness for the proposed time-frequency analysis technique under severe noise cases.
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Ultra-wideband orthogonal pulse shape set design by using Hermite-Gaussian functions
(IEEE, 2012) Alp, Yaşar Kemal; Dedeoǧlu, Mehmet; Arıkan, Orhan
Ultra-Wideband (UWB) communication systems have been developed for short distance, high data rate communications. To avoid interfering with the existing systems in the same environment, very short duration pulses used by these systems should satisfy a predefined spectral mask. Data rate of UWB systems can be increased by using multiple pulse shapes simultaneously. Orthogonality of the simultaneously used pulse shapes simplifies the receiver design. In this work, design of orthogonal pulse shapes which satisfy the spectral mask is modelled as an optimization problem. First, it is converted to a convex optimization problem by constraining the pulse shapes to lie in a subspace spanned by the Hermite-Gaussian (HG) functions. Then the optimal solution is obtained. It is shown that a larger pulse shape set can be designed compared to the existing approaches, and hence, a higher data rate can be achieved. © 2012 IEEE.