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A subspace approach for shrinkage parameter selection in undersampled configuration for Regularised Tyler Estimators

Q. Hoarau, Arnaud Breloy, Guillaume Ginolhac, Abdourrahmane M. Atto, Jean-Marie Nicolas

Abstract

Regularized Tyler Estimator's (RTE) have raised attention over the past years due to their attractive performance over a wide range of noise distributions and their natural robustness to outliers. Developing adaptive methods for the selection of the regularisation parameter α is currently an active topic of research. Indeed, the bias-performance compromise of RTEs highly depends on the considered application. Thus, finding a generic rule that is optimal for every criterion and/or data configurations is not straightforward. This issue is addressed in this paper for undersampled configurations (number of samples lower than the dimension of the data). The paper proposes a new regularisation parameter selection based on a subspace reduction approach. The performance of this method is investigated in terms of estimation accuracy and for adaptive detection purposes, both on simulation and real data.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{icassp2017_asubspaceapproac,
  title = {A subspace approach for shrinkage parameter selection in undersampled configuration for Regularised Tyler Estimators},
  author = {Q. Hoarau and Arnaud Breloy and Guillaume Ginolhac and Abdourrahmane M. Atto and Jean-Marie Nicolas},
  booktitle = {ICASSP 2017},
  year = {2017}
}
A subspace approach for shrinkage parameter selection in undersampled configuration for Regularised Tyler Estimators · ICASSP 2017