Data components with well-defined moveout other than primary reflections are sometimes called coherent noise. Coherent noise makes velocity analysis ambiguous, since no single velocity function explains incompatible moveouts simultaneously. Contemporary data processing treats the control of coherent noise influence on velocity as an interpretive step. Dual regularization theory suggests an alte...

The problem of small bit error rate is actual in fiber Raman amplifiers. Our experimental data on the amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) with backward pumping as a base of optical noise evaluation are presented in this paper. Raman gain spectrum for useful Stokes low-powered signal is calculated and compared with obtained spectrum of non-coherent ASE noise. It is shown that output optical sig...

Approaches to wavelet-based denoising (or signal enhancement) have so far relied on the assumption of normally distributed perturbations. To relax this assumption, which is often violated in practice, we derive a robust wavelet thresholding technique based on theMinimax Description Length principle. We rst determine the least favorable distribution in the "-contaminated normal family as the mem...

We have carried out a preliminary analysis of shot noise at hopping, focusing on uniform one-dimensional ~1D! arrays of sites separated by N tunnel barriers. The results show that at low temperatures the low-frequency density of the shot noise varies from 1/N to 1 of the Schottky value, depending on the geometry, electron density, and Coulomb interaction strength. An interesting feature is v de...

In this paper, robust blind channel equalization is addressed in which the combination of order statistics (OS) and thresholding techniques to suppress impulse noise is considered. We implement nonlinear adaptation with the OS operation based on the Sato error criterion. The threshold is calculated using the variance of the input signal. Computer simulations demonstrate that a significant impro...

Low velocity noise can contaminate reflections and distort AVO amplitude information. I explore different inversion methods for suppressing low velocity noise while simultaneously preserving amplitudes along reflections. A velocity-stack inversion process is used for recreating models in velocity space that can reconstruct the reflections and the low velocity noise. Velocity-stack inversion is ...

Speech enhancement techniques using spectral subtraction have the drawback of generating residual noise with a musical character, so-called musical noise. We developed a new post-processing method for suppressing this musical residual noise. In this method, the auditory masking threshold is calculated twice, once before the spectral subtraction and once again afterwards. This ensures that all a...