Title
Information Geometry for Covariance Estimation in Heterogeneous Clutter with Total Bregman Divergence.
Abstract
This paper presents a covariance matrix estimation method based on information geometry in a heterogeneous clutter. In particular, the problem of covariance estimation is reformulated as the computation of geometric median for covariance matrices estimated by the secondary data set. A new class of total Bregman divergence is presented on the Riemanian manifold of Hermitian positive-definite (HPD) matrix, which is the foundation of information geometry On the basis of this divergence, total Bregman divergence medians are derived instead of the sample covariance matrix (SCM) of the secondary data. Unlike the SCM, resorting to the knowledge of statistical characteristics of the sample data, the geometric structure of matrix space is considered in our proposed estimators, and then the performance can be improved in a heterogeneous clutter. At the analysis stage, numerical results are given to validate the detection performance of an adaptive normalized matched filter with our estimator compared with existing alternatives.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.3390/e20040258
ENTROPY
Keywords
Field
DocType
covariance matrix estimation,total Bregman divergence,information geometry,adaptive normalized matched filter
Information geometry,Mathematical optimization,Estimation of covariance matrices,Matrix (mathematics),Algorithm,Bregman divergence,Covariance matrix,Mathematics,Geometric median,Estimator,Covariance
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
20
4
1099-4300
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
11
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiaoqiang Hua181.88
Yongqiang Cheng213329.99
Hongqiang Wang3699.96
Yuliang Qin414227.06