A New Denoising Method via Empirical Mode Decomposition

Abstract:

In non-parametric signal denoising area, empirical mode decomposition is potentially useful. In this paper, the wavelet thresholding principle is directly used in EMD-based denoising. The basic principle of the method is to reconstruct the signal with IMFs previously thresholded. A novel threshold function is proposed to improve denoising effect by exploiting the special characteristics of the hard and soft thresholding method. The denoising method is validated through experiments on the “Doppler” signal and a real ECG signal from MIT-BIH databases corrupted by additive white Gaussian random noise. The simulations show that the proposed EMD-based method provides very good results for denoising.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 651-653)
• Pages: 2090-2093
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.651-653.2090
• Online since: September 2014
• Authors: Shou Cheng Zhang*, Li Li Sui
• Keywords: Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD), Intrinsic Mode Function, Wavelet Thresholding, White Gaussian Noise

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