i-manager's Journal on Digital Signal Processing (JDP)


Volume 3 Issue 3 July - September 2015

Research Paper

Active Sonar Signal Processing in Noise Background Environment

M. Rajeswari* , S. Koteswara Rao**
* Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Vignan's Institute of Information Technology,Visakhapatnam, A.P., India.
** Senior Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Vignan's Institute of Engineering for Women, Visakhapatnam,A.P., India.
Rajeswari,M., and Rao,K.S. (2015). Active Sonar Signal Processing in Noise Background Environment. i-manager's journal on Digital Signal Processing, 3(3), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.26634/jdp.3.3.3589

Abstract

One of the most important problems in many application areas is to extract the signal of interest from background noise. In background noise, the occurrence of signal and the behaviour of signal are random. Therefore, it is reasonable to deal with the signal extraction problem using methods based on probability theory and statistical estimation. That is to say that signal detection and parameter estimation problems are statistical hypothesis testing problems in mathematical statistics. In this paper, we examine signal and noise environments encountered in active sonar using CW and LFM pulses. The optimum receiver is presented for range-Doppler-shift processing in a background-noise-limited environment. FFT based implementation for detection of CW and LFM active sonar target has been shown here. By following this method both range and Doppler resolution can be achieved.

Research Paper

Removal of High Frequency Noise from the ECG Signal Using Averaging Filters

Vishakha Pandey* , V. K. Giri**
* B.Tech Student, Department of Electrical Engineering, Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur, India.
** Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur, India.
Pandey,V., and Giri.V.K. (2015). Removal of High Frequency Noise from the ECG Signal Using Averaging Filters. i-manager's journal on Digital Signal Processing, 3(3), 7-14. https://doi.org/10.26634/jdp.3.3.3590

Abstract

The Electro-CardioGram (ECG) is a graphical representation of electro-mechanical activities of the heart. It reflects the state of heart, and is very much useful in disease diagnosis. Since, the ECG signal contains high frequency noise, is well known as power line interference. Hence, it must be removed for further processing. This paper presents an algorithm, developed for denoising high frequency noise from ECG signal which is based on a simple averaging and a moving averaging filter. The filtering process is followed by an algorithm for smoothing the ECG signal using polynomial curve fitting. It’s denoising performance is implemented, smoothened, and compared in the C++ environment. The proposed algorithm does require redundant preprocessing steps, thus allowing a simple architecture for its implementation as well as low computational cost.

Research Paper

Detection and Estimation of Range, Velocity and Direction of Arrival of Multiple Targets

N. Padmaja*
Professor, Department of ECE, Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College, Tirupati, A.P, India.
Padmaja,N. (2015). Detection and Estimation of Range, Velocity and Direction of Arrival of Multiple Targets. i-manager's journal on Digital Signal Processing, 3(3), 15-23. https://doi.org/10.26634/jdp.3.3.3591

Abstract

A novel method for Multiple target localization based on linear canonical transform is presented in this paper. It involves a modal preprocessing step to transform the signals received at the sensor array into signals at different modes, where narrowband techniques for DOA estimation can be applied. The incorporation of the fractional Fourier transform in the proposed method makes it possible to estimate the parameters of multiple targets even in challenging scenarios such as low SNR and closely spaced targets. Detection and estimation of Range, Velocity and Direction Of Arrival (DOA) of multiple far field targets using wideband chirp signals using ROOT-MUSIC algorithm reduces the error for DOA, Range and Velocity. The proposed method is better than the existing method. While comparing Raleigh channel with Root- MUSIC algorithm where errors like PAPR, CFO and STO are minimized. Proposed method gives more accurate results with low Root-Mean-Square Errors in the parameters estimated under complex conditions such as closely spaced targets and low Signal-to-Noise-Ratio.

Research Paper

Comparative Analysis and Automatic Segmentation ofPCG Signal Using Wavelets Transform

Lekram Premlal Bahekar* , Deepali Shende**, Simran Kaur Digwa***
* Assistant Professor and Research Scholar, Department of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering, Madhukarrao Pandav college of Engineering Bhandara, India.
**-*** Assistant Professor and Research Scholar, Department of Electrical Engineering, Madhukarrao Pandav College of Engineering Bhandara, India.
Bahekar,L., Shende,D., and Digwa,S,K. (2015). Comparative Analysis and Automatic Segmentation of PCG Signal Using Wavelets Transform. i-manager's journal on Digital Signal Processing, 24-29. https://doi.org/10.26634/jdp.3.3.3592

Abstract

All around the world there are various diseases acquired by human beings. These diseases are of various kinds and it affects almost all parts of the human body. Heart diseases are nowaday's becoming very painstaking part that needs to be taken much care. The major part of solving such problems involves a considerable amount of work to identify the disease. As the heart is the most complex and delicate structure of the human body, it is very difficult to deal with it physically. The area of biomedical signal processing is vast and very useful to accurately analyze and detect the disease. We calculate the normalised root mean square of the detailed coefficients at each level and threshold it in order to detect the murmur of heart sound signals. The result of this method clearly illustrates the detection of the main components S1, S2, S3, S4 Pathological murmurs and the identification of the disease.

Research Paper

System Identification and Echo Canceller with Adaptive Filtering Algorithms

B.Anitha* , Srinivas Bachu**, C.Sailaja***
* Associate Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, GNITC, Telangana, India.
** Research Scholar, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, GITAM University, Telangana, India.
*** Assitant Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, GNITC, Telangana, India.
Anitha.B., Bachu,S., and Sailaja.C. (2015). System Identification and Echo Canceller with Adaptive Filtering Algorithms. i-manager's journal on Digital Signal Processing, 3(3), 30-34. https://doi.org/10.26634/jdp.3.3.3593

Abstract

The primary objective of this paper is to present a simulation scheme to simulate an adaptive filter using Least Mean Square, and Normalized Least Mean Square adaptive filtering algorithms for system identification and echo cancellation. The objective of echo cancellation is to estimate the unknown system response that is system identification. With the help of system identification and adaptive filtering algorithms Mean Square Error (MSE) can be minimized and hence echo free signal can be obtained. This method uses a primary input signal that contains speech signal and a reference input signal containing noise. The estimated signal is obtained by subtracting adaptively filtered reference input signal from the primary input signal. In this method, the desired signal corrupted by an additive echo can be recovered by an adaptive echo canceller using LMS, and NLMS algorithms. This adaptive echo canceller is useful in minimizing the MSE and to improve the SNR. Here the estimation of the adaptive filtering is done using MATLAB environment.

Research Paper

A Combined Noise Filtration Approach for EMG Signals Using Classical Filters with Independent Component Analysis (ICA)

Pradeep Kumar Jaisal* , R. N. Patel**
* Ph.D Research Scholar, Electronics & Telecommunication Department, Dr. CV Raman University, Bilaspur (CG), India.
** Professor, Department of Electrical & Electronics, SSGI, Bhilai, (CG), India.
Jaisal,P,K., Patel.R.N. (2015). A Combined Noise Filtration Approach for EMG Signals Using Classical Filters with Independent Component Analysis (ICA). i-manager's journal on Digital Signal Processing, 3(3), 35-41. https://doi.org/10.26634/jdp.3.3.3594

Abstract

Noise can limit the extraction of some basic and vital peculiarities from biomedical signals and thus makes it impossible to perform exact analysis of these signals. EMG (Electromyography) signals is one such case, which can be affected by number of factors. For example, power line noises, noises caused by electrical and electronic equipments, inherent semiconductor devices noises, etc. Electromyography (EMG) signals can be used for clinical/biomedical application and modern human computer interaction. EMG signals acquire noise while traveling through tissue, inherent noise in electronics equipment, ambient noise, and so forth. This paper presents an independent component analysis approach for removing noise from raw EMG signals. As the base of the presented systems is independent component analysis, but the technique also uses a multistep approach of filtering and combining the signals to recover the lost components also. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm removes the noise without compromising the useful information of signal.