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date the most widely used method for the analysis of signals whose spectral content varies with time. Recent application examples of the STFT and its variants – e.g. the squared magnitude of the STFT known as the spectrogram – include signal denoising, instantaneous frequency estimation, and speech recognition.
In this thesis, we first address the main limitation of the trade-off between time and frequency resolution for the TF analysis by proposing a novel adaptation procedure which properly adjusts the size of the analysis window over time. Our proposed approach achieves a high resolution TF representation, and can compare favorably with alternative time-adaptive spectrograms as well as
with advanced quadratic representations.Second, we propose a new scheme for the time-frequency adaptation of the STFT in order to automatically determine the size and the phase of the analysis window at each time and frequency
instant. This way, we can further improve the resolution of the conventional as well as the time-adaptive spectrograms.
Finally, we focus on denoising non-stationary signals in the STFT domain. We introduced an optimized TF mask in the STFT domain, which is based on the concept of the multi-window spectrogram. Experimentation has shown that the introduced approach can effectively recover distorted signals based on a small set of representative examples of the noisy observation and the desired signal.
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Recent application examples of the STFT and its variants – e.g. the squared magnitude of the STFT known as the spectrogram – include signal denoising, instantaneous frequency estimation, and speech recognition.<br/>In this thesis, we first address the main limitation of the trade-off between time and frequency resolution for the TF analysis by proposing a novel adaptation procedure which properly adjusts the size of the analysis window over time. Our proposed approach achieves a high resolution TF representation, and can compare favorably with alternative time-adaptive spectrograms as well as <br/>with advanced quadratic representations.Second, we propose a new scheme for the time-frequency adaptation of the STFT in order to automatically determine the size and the phase of the analysis window at each time and frequency <br/>instant. This way, we can further improve the resolution of the conventional as well as the time-adaptive spectrograms.<br/>Finally, we focus on denoising non-stationary signals in the STFT domain. We introduced an optimized TF mask in the STFT domain, which is based on the concept of the multi-window spectrogram. 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Finally, we focus on denoising non-stationary signals in the STFT domain. We introduced an optimized TF mask in the STFT domain, which is based on the concept of the multi-window spectrogram. Experimentation has shown that the introduced approach can effectively recover distorted signals based on a small set of representative examples of the noisy observation and the desired signal.
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Finally, we focus on denoising non-stationary signals in the STFT domain. We introduced an optimized TF mask in the STFT domain, which is based on the concept of the multi-window spectrogram. Experimentation has shown that the introduced approach can effectively recover distorted signals based on a small set of representative examples of the noisy observation and the desired signal.
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