Probabilistic Amplitude and Frequency Demodulation

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• Dr Richard Turner, Machine Learning Group, CUED
• Wednesday 25 April 2012, 14:15-15:00
• LR10, Engineering, Department of.

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A number of recent scientific and engineering problems require signals to be decomposed into a product of a slowly varying positive envelope and a quickly varying carrier whose instantaneous frequency also varies slowly over time. Examples include the analysis of speech signals and brain imaging signals, like EEG . Although signal processing provides algorithms for so-called amplitude- and frequency-demodulation, there are well known problems with all of the existing methods.

Motivated by the fact that amplitude and frequency demodulation is ill-posed, we approach the problem using probabilistic inference. The new approach, called probabilistic amplitude and frequency demodulation (PAFD), models instantaneous frequency using an auto-regressive generalization of the von Mises distribution, and the envelopes using Gaussian auto-regressive dynamics with a positivity constraint. A novel form of expectation propagation is used for inference. We demonstrate that although PAFD is computationally demanding, it outperforms previous approaches on synthetic and real signals in clean, noisy and missing data settings.

This talk is part of the Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars series.

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