Sound waves propagate well underwater making it useful for target locating and communication.Underwater acoustic noise(UWAN)affects the reliability in applications where the noise comes from multiple sources.In this p...Sound waves propagate well underwater making it useful for target locating and communication.Underwater acoustic noise(UWAN)affects the reliability in applications where the noise comes from multiple sources.In this paper,a novel signal de-noising technique is proposed using S-transform.From the time-frequency representation,de-noising is performed using soft thresholding with universal threshold estimation which is then reconstructed.The UWAN used for the validation is sea truth data collected at Desaru beach on the eastern shore of Johor in Malaysia with the use of broadband hydrophones.The comparison is made with the more conventionally used wavelet transform de-noising method.Two types of signals are evaluated:fixed frequency signals and time-varying signals.The results demonstrate that the proposed method shows better signal to noise ratio(SNR)by 4 dB and lower root mean square error(RMSE)by 3 dB achieved at the Nyquist sampling frequency compared to the previously proposed de-noising method like wavelet transform.展开更多
基金The authors would like to thank the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia(UTM)and Ministry of Higher Education(MOHE)Malaysia for supporting this work.
文摘Sound waves propagate well underwater making it useful for target locating and communication.Underwater acoustic noise(UWAN)affects the reliability in applications where the noise comes from multiple sources.In this paper,a novel signal de-noising technique is proposed using S-transform.From the time-frequency representation,de-noising is performed using soft thresholding with universal threshold estimation which is then reconstructed.The UWAN used for the validation is sea truth data collected at Desaru beach on the eastern shore of Johor in Malaysia with the use of broadband hydrophones.The comparison is made with the more conventionally used wavelet transform de-noising method.Two types of signals are evaluated:fixed frequency signals and time-varying signals.The results demonstrate that the proposed method shows better signal to noise ratio(SNR)by 4 dB and lower root mean square error(RMSE)by 3 dB achieved at the Nyquist sampling frequency compared to the previously proposed de-noising method like wavelet transform.
