Comparison of the short-time Fourier transform and wavelet transform for analysis of transient signal events /

a significant computational penalty. Also, short frame

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pilgrim, Richard Allen, 1965-
Format: Thesis eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 1994.
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Summary:a significant computational penalty. Also, short frame
ability. The wavelet transform is shown to detect transients
advantage in terms of TSR and, most importantly,
and execution speed. Simulations for the STFT show that
and SNR, while the wavelet transform displays a substantial
better using the longer wavelet filters in most cases, at a
computational requirements.
data. Comparisons are made using spectrograms/scalograms,
detection are examined by means of computer simulation. The
frame sizes, orders, and frame overlaps. The wavelet
in a masking sinusoidal signal, speech data, and DC arcing
including: test files with transients embedded in noise and
lengths for the STFT lead to better transient detection
less substantial computational penalty. Performance of the
Several types of data are analyzed using both transforms,
shown to be similar in comparisons of spectrograms/scalograms
signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), transient-to-signal ratio (TSR),
significant gains can be made by overlapping input frames, at
STFT uses a power-of-two decimation-in-time FFT with various
The performance characteristics of the wavelet transform and
the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) for transient
transform uses the Daubechies orthonormal wavelet filters.
wavelet transform and the STFT for transient detection are
Item Description:"Major subject: Electrical Engineering".
Vita.
Physical Description:x, 97 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Also available online.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.