2-D RAKE RECEIVER BASED ON SPACE-TIME CHANNEL PARAMETER ESTIMATION

2-D RAKE receiver is an efficient way to realize the space-time processing for CDMA systems with aperiodic spreading codes. The Direction Of Arrival (DOA) and the relative time delay of every user's multipath must be known to realize the 2-D RAKE receiver. In the third generation CDMA mobile communication system, auxiliary pilot channel is used in the uplink channels The different user's Vector Channel Impulse Response (VCIR) can be estimated from the pilotichannel easily. The VCIR contains spatial and temporal information. In this paper,by utilizing the known pulse shape function, a parameter matrix method used to estimate the Spatial Signature Vector (SSV) and the relative time delay is proposed in frequency domain.The DOA can be estimated from the SSV. By reconstructing the SSV and utilizing approximate Capon space filter, the performance of the 2-D RAKE receiver with uniform circular array can be improved with a little additional computation work.

2-D SPATIAL-SPECTRUM ESTIMATION FORWIDE-BAND SOURCES BASED ON INTERPOLATED CIRCULAR ARRAYS

In array signal processing, 2-D spatial-spectrum estimation is required to determine DOA of multiple signals. The circular array of sensors is found to possess several nice properties for DOA estimation of wide-band sources. C. U. Padmini, et al.(1994) had suggested that the frequency-direction ambiguity in azimuth estimation of wide-baud signals received by a uniform linear array (ULA) can be avoided by using a circular array, even without the use of any delay elements. In 2-D spatial-spectrum estimation for wide-band signals, the authors find that it is impossible to avoid the ambiguity in source frequency-elevation angle pairs using a circular array. In this paper, interpolated circular arrays are used to perform 2-D spatial-spectrum estimation for wide-band sources. In the estimation, a large aperture circular array (Υ】λmin/2) is found to possess superior resolution capability and robustness.

Two Dimensional Spatial Independent Component Analysis and Its Application in fMRI Data Process

One important application of independent component analysis （ICA） is in image processing. A two dimensional （2-D） composite ICA algorithm framework for 2-D image independent component analysis （2-D ICA） is proposed. The 2-D nature of the algorithm provides it an advantage of circumventing the roundabout transforming procedures between two dimensional （2-D） image deta and one-dimensional （l-D） signal. Moreover the combination of the Newton （fixed-point algorithm） and natural gradient algorithms in this composite algorithm increases its efficiency and robustness. The convincing results of a successful example in functional magnetic resonance imaging （fMRI） show the potential application of composite 2-D ICA in the brain activity detection.

DEVELOPMENT OF THE 2-D COUPLED STRATOSPHERICTROPOSPHERIC DYNAMICAL-RADIATIVE-CHEMICAL MODEL—PART Ⅱ:THE RESULTS AND DISCUSSION OF SENSITIVITY EXPERIMENTS

By using the 2-D stratospheric-tropospheric dynamic-radiative-chemical coupled model,some sensitivity experiments have been done,which are interactions among ozone,radiation and temperature,vapor effects,as well as effects of source and sink.The result of temperature experiment shows that feedback interaction among ozone,radiation and temperature,mainly occurs in the upper and middle stratosphere,the maximum of ozone concentration decrease is 1 ppm,the maximum of temperature change is 6 K,and the maximum of total ozone change is 20 DU.From the experiment of water vapor,we can see that the area of the middle and high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere is sensitive to vapor change.When the maximum difference between both surface sources is in the Antarctic,the maximum of ozone change is also there.Because the character of surface varies with latitude,dry deposition is different in different latitudes.The change of dry deposition makes ozone in boundary layer quite obvious,especially in both poles. The maximum change of total volume ozone in experiments of vapor,source and sink is more than 12 DU.

Threshold Selection Method Based on Reciprocal Gray Entropy and Artificial Bee Colony Optimization

Since the logarithmic form of Shannon entropy has the drawback of undefined value at zero points,and most existing threshold selection methods only depend on the probability information,ignoring the within-class uniformity of gray level,a method of reciprocal gray entropy threshold selection is proposed based on two-dimensional(2-D)histogram region oblique division and artificial bee colony(ABC)optimization.Firstly,the definition of reciprocal gray entropy is introduced.Then on the basis of one-dimensional(1-D)method,2-D threshold selection criterion function based on reciprocal gray entropy with histogram oblique division is derived.To accelerate the progress of searching the optimal threshold,the recently proposed ABC optimization algorithm is adopted.The proposed method not only avoids the undefined value points in Shannon entropy,but also achieves high accuracy and anti-noise performance due to reasonable 2-D histogram region division and the consideration of within-class uniformity of gray level.A large number of experimental results show that,compared with the maximum Shannon entropy method with 2-D histogram oblique division and the reciprocal entropy method with 2-D histogram oblique division based on niche chaotic mutation particle swarm optimization(NCPSO),the proposed method can achieve better segmentation results and can satisfy the requirement of real-time processing.

2-D spatial-spectrum estimation for wide-band signals without a priori knowledge of the number of sources

In array signal processing,the existing methods for DOA estimation of wide-band signals are only related to the azimuth estimation when the number or sensors is known.It is shown that a circular array possesses several nice properties.2-D spatial-spectrum estimation for wide-band sources is performed by using a circular array of sensors with sample delay lines.Further,the Choi' s approach is extended,which was suggested to estimate DOA of narrow-band signals when the number of sensor was unknown,to wide-band signal processing.The extended approach is shown to be quite adequate for wide-band signal subspace spatial-spectrum estimation (BASS-LE),and a large aperture (r>λvin/2) circular array is found to possess superior resolution capability and robustness.

An Effective Method of Threshold Selection for Small Object Image

The image segmentation difficulties of small objects which are much smaller than their background often occur in target detection and recognition. The existing threshold segmentation methods almost fail under the circumstances. Thus, a threshold selection method is proposed on the basis of area difference between background and object and intra-class variance. The threshold selection formulae based on one-dimensional (1-D) histogram, two-dimensional (2-D) histogram vertical segmentation and 2-D histogram oblique segmentation are given. A fast recursive algorithm of threshold selection in 2-D histogram oblique segmentation is derived. The segmented images and processing time of the proposed method are given in experiments. It is compared with some fast algorithms, such as Otsu, maximum entropy and Fisher threshold selection methods. The experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively segment the small object images and has better anti-noise property.