We extend the Wigner distribution (WD) to conjugate unitary operators A, and Bp. The resulting “ABWD” is defined both as an a-b representation and as a timefrequency representation. Important properties and relations of the WD are generalized to the AB-WD.

This text describes a series of experiments performed with a machine capable of synthesizing human whistles and canary song. We call this device The Universal Whistling Machine (U.W.M). It senses the presence of living creatures in its vicinity and attracts them with a signature whistle. Given a response whistle, U.W.M. counters with its own composition, based on a time-frequency analysis of th...

The most popular time-frequency analysis tool, the Short-Time Fourier Transform, suffers from blurry harmonic representation when voiced speech undergoes changes in pitch. These relatively fast variations lead to inconsistent bins in frequency domain and cannot be accurately described by the Fourier analysis with high resolution both in time and frequency. In this paper a new analysis tool, cal...

Although traditional signal-based structural health monitoring algorithms have been successfully employed for small structures, their application for large and complex bridges has been challenging due to non-stationary signal characteristics with a high level of noise. In this paper, a promising damage detection algorithm is proposed by incorporation of adaptive signal processing and Artificial...

We introduce a new and simple technique for human gait classification based on the time-frequency analysis of radar data. The focus is on the classification of arm movements to discern free vs. confined arm swinging motion. The latter may arise in hostage situation or may be indicative to carrying objects with one or both hands. The motion signatures corresponding to the arm and leg movements a...

The difficulty of selecting the optimal time-frequency distribution (TFD) for a given real-life signal has been one of the major limiting factors to a wider use of time-frequency analysis tools in practice. This paper, by extending our earlier works on the objective assessment of the performance of TFDs, presents a novel automatic approach for selecting a real-life signal best-performing time-f...