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125 Citations
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EEG-Based Emotion Recognition Using Quadratic Time-Frequency Distribution

  • Rami Alazrai,
  • Rasha Homoud,
  • Hisham Alwanni and
  • Mohammad I. Daoud

20 August 2018

Accurate recognition and understating of human emotions is an essential skill that can improve the collaboration between humans and machines. In this vein, electroencephalogram (EEG)-based emotion recognition is considered an active research field wi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor Signal and Information Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,887 Views
17 Pages

29 January 2019

The ground motion characteristics are essential for understanding the structural seismic response. In this paper, the time-frequency analytical method is used to analyze the time-frequency energy distribution of ground motion, and its effect on the d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Resilience and Sustainability of Civil Infrastructures under Extreme Loads)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,568 Views
14 Pages

13 November 2020

The frequency variating source, linear generator, and switching devices lead to dynamic characteristics of the low-frequency conducted emissions within maglev on-board distribution systems. To track the time-varying feature of these disturbances, a j...

(This article belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
153 Citations
12,673 Views
20 Pages

12 October 2016

In this paper, an automatic radar waveform recognition system in a high noise environment is proposed. Signal waveform recognition techniques are widely applied in the field of cognitive radio, spectrum management and radar applications, etc. We devi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Non-Contact Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
296 Views
21 Pages

Identification of Distribution-Network Edge-End Devices Based on Current Time–Frequency Features and Random Forest

  • Hui Fan,
  • Jie Zhao,
  • Zhao Zhao,
  • Zejun Ou and ,
  • Huanyu Liu,
  • Jianzhen Han,
  • Jie Chen and
  • Guang Tian
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

18 August 2026

With the increasing integration of distributed photovoltaics, energy storage systems, electric vehicle chargers, and intelligent terminals, accurate identification of heterogeneous edge-end devices in distribution networks has become challenging due...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Decentralized Control Strategies for Multi-Microgrid Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
805 Views
23 Pages

Compressed sensing (CS) applied in the ambiguity domain offers an effective approach for recovering time–frequency distributions (TFDs) of non-stationary signals from sparse representations. Existing methods predominantly rely on the Wigner&nda...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,063 Views
17 Pages

20 August 2019

Detecting pain based on analyzing electroencephalography (EEG) signals can enhance the ability of caregivers to characterize and manage clinical pain. However, the subjective nature of pain and the nonstationarity of EEG signals increase the difficul...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Signals in Health Care)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,595 Views
13 Pages

Analysis of Power Quality Signals Using an Adaptive Time-Frequency Distribution

  • Nabeel A. Khan,
  • Faisal Baig,
  • Syed Junaid Nawaz,
  • Naveed Ur Rehman and
  • Shree K. Sharma

9 November 2016

Spikes frequently occur in power quality (PQ) disturbance signals due to various causes such as switching of the inductive loads and the energization of the capacitor bank. Such signals are difficult to analyze using existing time-frequency (TF) meth...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Power Electronics in Power Quality)
  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
10,655 Views
27 Pages

23 August 2017

This paper presents an EEG-based brain-computer interface system for classifying eleven motor imagery (MI) tasks within the same hand. The proposed system utilizes the Choi-Williams time-frequency distribution (CWD) to construct a time-frequency repr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biomedical Sensors and Systems 2017)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,857 Views
14 Pages

29 December 2023

The extraction of the micro-Doppler (m-D) feature based on time-frequency distribution (TFD) is of great significance for target detection and identification. To improve the feature extraction performance, numerous TFDs have been developed, with the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Doppler Radar: Signal, Data and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,184 Views
23 Pages

20 April 2023

Compressive sensing (CS) of the signal ambiguity function (AF) and enforcing the sparsity constraint on the resulting signal time-frequency distribution (TFD) has been shown to be an efficient method for time-frequency signal processing. This paper p...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,239 Views
25 Pages

22 June 2025

Compressive sensing in the ambiguity domain facilitates high-performance reconstruction of time-frequency distributions (TFDs) for non-stationary signals. However, identifying the optimal regularization parameter in the absence of prior knowledge rem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,396 Views
19 Pages

24 March 2025

Railways are crucial in economic development and improving people’s livelihoods. Therefore, defect detection and maintenance of rails are particularly important. In order to accurately separate and identify the rail defect from the mixed signal...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning in Vibration and Acoustics 2.0)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,395 Views
22 Pages

21 June 2023

Time-frequency signal processing offers a significant advantage over temporal or frequency-only methods, but representations require optimisation for a given signal. Standard practice includes choosing the appropriate time-frequency distribution and...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,685 Views
21 Pages

25 August 2025

Earthquake prediction remains a significant challenge in seismology, and advancements in signal processing techniques have opened new avenues for improving prediction accuracy. This paper explores the application of Time–Frequency Distributions...

(This article belongs to the Section Earth Sciences)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,453 Views
24 Pages

7 March 2025

Compressive sensing in the ambiguity domain offers an efficient method for reconstructing high-quality time–frequency distributions (TFDs) across diverse signals. However, evaluating the quality of these reconstructions presents a significant c...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,800 Views
23 Pages

24 September 2025

The paper considers the problem of detecting and classifying acoustic signals based on information (entropy) criteria. A number of new information features based on time-frequency distributions are proposed, which include the spectrogram and its upgr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of Information, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,612 Views
28 Pages

26 May 2024

Frequency-modulated (FM) signals, prevalent across various applied disciplines, exhibit time-dependent frequencies and a multicomponent nature necessitating the utilization of time-frequency methods. Accurately determining the number of components in...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,256 Views
29 Pages

11 May 2023

Instantaneous frequency (IF) is commonly used in the analysis of electroencephalogram (EEG) signals to detect oscillatory-type seizures. However, IF cannot be used to analyze seizures that appear as spikes. In this paper, we present a novel method fo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue EEG Signal Processing Techniques and Applications—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,566 Views
17 Pages

29 February 2024

Distributed optical fiber acoustic sensing (DAS) is promising for long-distance intrusion-anomaly detection tasks. However, realistic settings suffer from high-intensity interference noise, compromising the detection performance of DAS systems. To ad...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,836 Views
23 Pages

17 January 2023

In this paper, we study the connections between generalized mean operators and entropies, where the mean value operators are related to the strictly monotone logical operators of fuzzy theory. Here, we propose a new entropy measure based on the famil...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
526 Views
18 Pages

13 August 2026

High-resolution online sensors are now common in environmental process systems, yet turning their non-stationary, heterogeneous observation streams into reliable predictions of the underlying process state remains difficult. The statistical distribut...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Enhanced Sensor Data Integration and Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
453 Views
25 Pages

Background: Distribution shift is one of the most pervasive data-related challenges for time-series classification. In sensor-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR), a model trained on one population of subjects often degrades substantially when depl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data-Related Challenges in Machine Learning: Theory and Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,564 Views
15 Pages

25 September 2023

At present, the micro-Doppler effects of underwater targets is a challenging new research problem. This paper studies the micro-Doppler effect of underwater targets, analyzes the moving characteristics of underwater micro-motion components, establish...

(This article belongs to the Section Electronic Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,776 Views
11 Pages

Matrix-Wigner Distribution

  • Long Wang,
  • Manjun Cui,
  • Ze Qin,
  • Zhichao Zhang and
  • Jianwei Zhang

In order to achieve time–frequency superresolution in comparison to the conventional Wigner distribution (WD), this study generalizes the well-known τ-Wigner distribution (τ-WD) with only one parameter τ to the multiple-parameter ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,151 Views
19 Pages

24 August 2023

In radar array signal processing, weak nonstationary polarization signal direction of arrival (DOA) estimation is a challenging and significant issue when both strong and weak nonstationary signals coexist. Time-frequency (T-F) analysis is an effecti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies of Artificial Intelligence in Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,176 Views
22 Pages

An Adaptive Chirp Mode Decomposition-Based Method for Modal Identification of Time-Varying Structures

  • Xiao-Jun Yao,
  • Yu-Chun Lv,
  • Xiao-Mei Yang,
  • Feng-Yang Wang and
  • Yong-Xiang Zheng

9 October 2024

Modal parameters are inherent characteristics of civil structures. Due to the effect of environmental factors and ambient loads, the physical and modal characteristics of a structure tend to change over time. Therefore, the effective identification o...

(This article belongs to the Section C2: Dynamical Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
87 Citations
13,202 Views
21 Pages

Accurate estimation of seismocardiographic (SCG) signal features can help successful signal characterization and classification in health and disease. This may lead to new methods for diagnosing and monitoring heart function. Time-frequency distribut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,181 Views
13 Pages

Moisture Condition Assessment of Oil–Paper Insulation Based on Frequency-Domain Dielectric Spectroscopy and Relaxation Time Distribution

  • Yanpeng Hao,
  • Yibo Yang,
  • Zikui Shen,
  • Hanhui Xiang and ,
  • Ningfeng Zhou,
  • Haoyi Zhang and
  • Jun Deng
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

9 December 2025

The Debye model and its modified forms are widely applied to interpret relaxation polarization processes in dielectric media. However, these models generally require prior assumptions regarding the number of polarization branches, which makes it diff...

  • Article
  • Open Access
705 Views
17 Pages

18 May 2026

A novel method for recognizing acoustic signals of partial discharge optical fiber sensors using the time-frequency phase composition property is proposed in this paper. The method involves obtaining the Wigner–Ville time-frequency distribution...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optical Sensors for Industrial Applications: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,145 Views
36 Pages

21 May 2024

Radio frequency interference (RFI) significantly hampers the target detection performance of frequency-modulated continuous-wave radar. To address the problem and maintain the target echo signal, this paper proposes a priori assumption on the interfe...

(This article belongs to the Section Radar Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
912 Views
17 Pages

Conventional space vector pulse width modulation (CSVPWM) with the fixed switching frequency generates significant sideband harmonics in the three-phase voltage. Discrete random switching frequency SVPWM (DRSF-SVPWM) methods have been widely applied...

(This article belongs to the Section Power Electronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,290 Views
23 Pages

Leveraging Time–Frequency Distribution Priors and Structure-Aware Adaptivity for Wideband Signal Detection and Recognition in Wireless Communications

  • Xikang Wang,
  • Hua Xu,
  • Zisen Qi,
  • Qingwei Meng and ,
  • Hongcheng Fan,
  • Yunhao Shi and
  • Wenran Le
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

17 December 2025

Wideband signal detection and recognition (WSDR) is considered an effective technical means for monitoring and analyzing spectra. The mainstream technical route involves constructing time–frequency representations for wideband sampled signals a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning-Based Image and Signal Sensing and Processing: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,639 Views
23 Pages

21 July 2018

As the number of mobile users and video traffics grow explosively, the data rate demands increase tremendously. To improve the spectral efficiency, the spectrum are reused inter cell or intra cell, such as the ultra dense network with multi-cell or t...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,300 Views
18 Pages

Fault Line Selection in Distribution Networks Based on Dual-Channel Time-Frequency Fusion Network

  • Yuyi Ma,
  • Wei Guo,
  • Yuntao Shi,
  • Jianing Guan and ,
  • Yushuai Qi,
  • Xiang Yin and
  • Gang Liu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

21 August 2025

In distribution networks, single-phase ground faults often lead to abnormal changes in voltage and current signals. Traditional single-modal fault diagnosis methods usually struggle to accurately identify the fault line under such conditions. To addr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,167 Views
14 Pages

25 April 2019

In this paper, a joint method combining Hough transform and reassigned smoothed pseudo Wigner-Ville distribution (RSPWVD) is presented to detect time-varying interferences with crossed frequency for a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receive...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,482 Views
6 Pages

Computational Feasibility Study for Time-Frequency Analysis of Non-Stationary Vibration Signals Based on Wigner-Ville Distribution

  • Luis Otávio de Angeles Dias,
  • Pedro Oliveira Conceição Junior and
  • Paulo Monteiro de Carvalho Monson

15 November 2023

The time-frequency analysis has garnered attention for research due to its applications in studying non-stationary signals, revealing information often obscured by conventional time or frequency domain analysis. This study aims to reduce the computat...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 10th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
529 Views
21 Pages

13 July 2026

Rolling-element bearings remain a leading cause of unplanned downtime in industrial machinery, while vibration-based condition monitoring has matured, the post-2018 literature has converged on machine-learning classifiers whose interpretability layer...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Metal Surface Engineering: Enhancing Durability, Performance, and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,643 Views
13 Pages

DOA Estimation and Self-Calibration under Unknown Mutual Coupling

  • Dong Qi,
  • Min Tang,
  • Shiwen Chen,
  • Zhixin Liu and
  • Yongjun Zhao

25 February 2019

In practical applications, the assumption of omnidirectional elements is not effective in general, which leads to the direction-dependent mutual coupling (MC). Under this condition, the performance of traditional calibration algorithms suffers. This...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor Signal and Information Processing II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,722 Views
15 Pages

17 December 2024

Rail corrugation intensifies wheel–rail vibrations, often leading to damage in vehicle–track system components within affected sections. This paper proposes a novel method for identifying rail corrugation, which combines Complete Ensemble...

(This article belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,619 Views
25 Pages

20 May 2025

Bearings are essential rotational components that enable mechanical equipment to operate effectively. In real-world industrial environments, bearings are subjected to high temperatures and loads, making failure prediction and health management critic...

(This article belongs to the Section Actuators for Manufacturing Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,269 Views
26 Pages

4 September 2019

The incipient damages of mechanical equipment excite weak impulse vibration, which is hidden, almost unobservable, in the collected signal, making fault detection and failure prevention at the inchoate stage rather challenging. Traditional feature ex...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Fault Diagnostics and Prognostics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,810 Views
19 Pages

Low-Rate DoS Attacks Detection Based on MAF-ADM

  • Sijia Zhan,
  • Dan Tang,
  • Jianping Man,
  • Rui Dai and
  • Xiyin Wang

29 December 2019

Low-rate denial of service (LDoS) attacks reduce the quality of network service by sending periodical packet bursts to the bottleneck routers. It is difficult to detect by counter-DoS mechanisms due to its stealthy and low average attack traffic beha...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,792 Views
21 Pages

10 August 2021

Linear frequency-modulated (LFM) signals are the most significant example of waveform used in low probability of intercept (LPI) radars, synthetic aperture radars and modern communication systems. Thus, interception and parameter estimation of the si...

(This article belongs to the Collection Modern Radar Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,377 Views
23 Pages

A Meta-Learning-Based Recognition Method for Multidimensional Feature Extraction and Fusion of Underwater Targets

  • Xiaochun Liu,
  • Yunchuan Yang,
  • Youfeng Hu,
  • Xiangfeng Yang and ,
  • Liwen Liu,
  • Lei Shi and
  • Jianguo Liu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

21 May 2025

To tackle the challenges of relative attitude adaptability and limited sample availability in underwater moving target recognition for active sonar, this study focuses on key aspects such as feature extraction, network model design, and information f...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,549 Views
23 Pages

17 December 2022

Existing thruster fault diagnosis methods for AUV (autonomous underwater vehicle) usually need sufficient labeled training data. However, it is unrealistic to get sufficient labeled training data for each working condition in practice. Based on this...

(This article belongs to the Section Machines Testing and Maintenance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,539 Views
20 Pages

1 August 2022

This paper presents a passive bistatic radar (PBR) configuration using a global navigation satellite system as an illuminator of opportunity for the rotor blade feature extraction of a helicopter. Aiming at the strong fixed clutter in the surveillanc...

(This article belongs to the Section Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments, and Modeling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,241 Views
22 Pages

31 March 2024

Reliable identification of spatial parameters for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, such as the number of transmit antennas (NTA) and the direction of arrival (DOA), is a prerequisite for MIMO signal separation and detection. Most existi...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advanced Array Signal Processing for B5G/6G: Models, Algorithms, and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,957 Views
15 Pages

9 July 2024

To solve the separation of multi-source signals and detect their features from a single channel, a signal separation method using multi-constraint non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is proposed. In view of the existing NMF algorithm not performi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Signal Processing for Fault Detection and Diagnosis in Electric Machines and Energy Conversion Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,244 Views
20 Pages

15 November 2023

The detection of small targets within the background of sea clutter is a significant challenge faced in radar signal processing. Small target echoes are weak in energy, and can be submerged by sea clutter and sea spikes, which are caused by overturni...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Shore-Based, Sky-Based and Marine Radars to Ocean and Target Parameter Extraction)

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