Source Enumeration in Non-White Noise and Small Sample Size via Subspace Averaging

TitleSource Enumeration in Non-White Noise and Small Sample Size via Subspace Averaging
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2019
AuthorsGarg, V., and I. Santamaría
Conference NameEuropean Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)
Month PublishedSeptember
Conference LocationLa Coruña, Spain
AbstractThis paper addresses the problem of source enumeration by an array of sensors in the challenging conditions of: i) large uniform arrays with few snapshots, and ii) non-white or spatially correlated noises with arbitrary correlation. To solve this problem, we combine a subspace averaging (SA) technique, recently proposed for the case of independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) noises, with a majority vote approach. The number of sources is detected for increasing dimensions of the SA technique and then a majority vote is applied to determine the final estimate. As illustrated by some simulation examples, this simple modification, makes SA a very robust method of enumerating sources in these challenging scenarios.
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