Abstract:

Ambiguity function (AF) is proposed to represent ultrasonic signal to resolve the preprocessing problem of different center frequencies and different arriving times among ultrasonic signals for feature extraction, as well as offer time-frequency features for signal classification. Moreover, Karhunen-Loeve (K-L) transform is considered to extract signal features from ambiguity plane, and then the features are presented to probabilistic neural network (PNN) for signal classification. Experimental results show that ambiguity function eliminates the difference of center frequency and arriving time existing in ultrasonic signals, and ambiguity plane features extracted by K-L transform describe the signal of different classes effectively in a reduced dimensional space. Classification result suggests that the ambiguity plane features obtain better performance than the features extracted by wavelet transform (WT).