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Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics Vol. 24, No. 6, December 2013, pp.919–924 Dynamic threshold for SPWVD parameter estimation based on Otsu algorithm Ning Ma* and Jianxin Wang School of Electronic Engineering and Optoelectronic Technology, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China Abstract: Time-frequency-based methods are proven to be effec- under the low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), but they are un- tive for parameter estimation of linear frequency modulation (LFM) able to provide the temporal information. The temporal and signals. The smoothed pseudo Winger-Ville distribution (SPWVD) spectral information can be directly extracted from WVD is used for the parameter estimation of multi-LFM signals, and a or its variants. Accordingly, how to choose an appropriate method of the SPWVD binarization by a dynamic threshold based on the Otsu algorithm is proposed. The proposed method is ef- threshold to achieve the time-frequency plane binarization fective in the demand for the estimation of different parameters is significant. The common practice is to choose an empir- and the unknown signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) circumstance. The ical percentage of the energy peak of the time-frequency performance of this method is confirmed by numerical simulation. distribution as a fixed threshold [14]; however it suffers Keywords: parameter estimation, smoothed pseudo Winger-Ville from the reduced time-frequency concentration and varia- distribution (SPWVD), dynamic threshold, Otsu algorithm. tion of SNR. DOI: 10.1109/JSEE.2013.00107 In this paper, the SPWVD