Abstract
We focus on detection and time-of-arrival (ToA) estimation of underwater acoustic signals of unknown structure. The common practice to use a detection threshold may fail when the assumed channel model is mismatched or when noise transients exist. We propose to detect and evaluate the ToA by labeling samples of observed data as 'signal' or 'noise'. Then, signal is detected when enough samples are labeled as 'signal', and ToA is estimated according to the position of the first 'signal'-related sample. We take a clustering approach, thereby obviating the need for a detection threshold and training. Our method combines a constrained expectation-maximization (EM) with the Viterbi algorithm, and becomes handy when channel conditions are rough, noise statistics is hard to estimate, and signal-to-noise ratio is low. Numerical and experimental results show that, at the cost of some additional complexity, our proposed algorithm outperforms common benchmark methods in terms of detection and false alarm rates, and in terms of accuracy of ToA estimation.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | SPAWC 2016 - 17th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications |
Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781509017492 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 9 Aug 2016 |
Event | 17th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, SPAWC 2016 - Edinburgh, United Kingdom Duration: 3 Jul 2016 → 6 Jul 2016 |
Publication series
Name | IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, SPAWC |
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Volume | 2016-August |
Conference
Conference | 17th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, SPAWC 2016 |
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Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
City | Edinburgh |
Period | 3/07/16 → 6/07/16 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2016 IEEE.
Keywords
- Acoustic detection
- Clustering
- Detection in low SNR
- Expectation-maximization
- Time-of-Arrival estimation
- Viterbi algorithm
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Computer Science Applications
- Information Systems