Activity detection in unknown noise environment

E. Fishler, H. Messer

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Abstract

In many applications there exists an array of cells (or bins), each containing either an activity (signal) plus noise, or noise only. A common problem is to identify the active bins, assuming that the noise level in the array is unknown. In this paper we present a novel approach for solving this problem. The approach is based on two steps. In the first, we estimate the noise level and in the second we perform a sequential test to decide, for each bin, whether it is active or not. We show that the proposed algorithm collapses to well known special cases. The performance of the proposed algorithm is analyzed analytically and is demonstrated via simulation results.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3185-3188
Number of pages4
JournalProceedings - ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
Volume5
StatePublished - 2001
Externally publishedYes
Event2001 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing - Salt Lake, UT, United States
Duration: 7 May 200111 May 2001

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