CSP Community Spotlight: Gold Star
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Cyclostationary Signal Processing
Understanding and Using the Statistics of Communication Signals
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Modulation Recognition Using Cyclic Cumulants, Part II: Algorithms
An example of how a decision-theoretic approach to a mathematical problem leads to a feature-based algorithmic solution that, viewed in isolation, appears to have sprung from the brow of Zeus fully formed.
Watch Out!
"Hear my words and bear witness to my vow: Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men." Night's Watch Oath, Game of Thrones, by G. R. R. Martin
Tide is Turning?
I see the first CSP Blog upturn since ChatGPT exploded in late 2022. But is it real?
The CSP Blog Turns 10
Raise a glass!
SPTK: The Matched Filter
Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make me a match, Find me a find, catch me a catch! --"Matchmaker" from Fiddler on the Roof
SPTK: The Characteristic Function
The collision of probability, Fourier analysis, and communication-signal models.
The Big Time
"The place where I come from is a small town They think so small, they use small words But not me, I'm smarter than that I worked it out I've been stretching my mouth To let those big words come right out" 'Big Time' by Peter Gabriel
CSP Reduction to Sine-Wave Generation
"Five different voices behind him bellowed, "REDUCTO!" Five curses flew in five different directions and the shelves opposite them exploded as they hit; the towering structure swayed as a hundred glass spheres burst apart, pearly-white figures unfurled into the air and floated there, their voices echoing from who knew what long-dead past amid the torrent of crashing glass and splintered wood now…
CSPB.ML.2018R2.NF
A noise-free version of the 2018 CSP Blog dataset CSPB.ML.2018R2 is posted here. This allows researchers to correctly apply propagation-channel effects to the generated signals, and to easily add their own noise at whatever level they wish. The format of the files is the same as CSPB.ML.2018R2, and the truth parameters for each file are Continue reading "CSPB.ML.2018R2.NF"