Deconvolutive Short-Time Fourier Transform Spectrogram

The short-time Fourier transform (STFT) spectrogram, which is the squared modulus of the STFT, is a smoothed version of the Wigner-Ville distribution (WVD). The STFT spectrogram is 2-D convolution of the the signal WVD and the window function WVD. In this letter, we propose a deconvolutive short-time Fourier transform (DSTFT) spectrogram method, which improves the time-frequency resolution and reduces the cross-terms simultaneously by applying a 2-D deconvolution operation on the STFT spectrogram. Compared to the STFT spectrogram, the spectrogram obtained by the proposed method shows a clear improvement in the time-frequency resolution. Computer simulations are provided to illustrate the good performance of the proposed method, compared with some traditional time-frequency representation (TFR) methods.

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