Estimation of the number of sources by applying MDL to the output of Quadrature mirror filter bank

Abstract EN

Estimating the number of sources impinging on an array of sensors is a well-known and well investigated problem.

A common approach for solving this problem is to use an information theoretic criterion, such as Minimum Description Length (MDL).

MDL technique is very important in many applications, but its response degrades under low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) conditions.

This paper proposes a new system to estimate the number of sources by applying MDL to the outputs of filter bank consisting quadrature mirror filters (QMF).

Some numerical experiments show that the proposed method can estimate the number of sources under low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR).