An Approach to Determining the Decomposition Level for Wavelet De-Nosing Based on Gamma Test

Abstract:

The wavelet de-noising approach is one of the most efficient techniques for noise reduction. Except for the mathematical elegancy in its theoretical aspect, a successful application requires appropriate determination on the decomposition level. This paper proposes a novel approach to selecting an appropriate decomposition level by applying the Gamma test on the noisy data to estimate the noise variance. A number of experiments were carried out on a set of smooth signals corrupted by white Gaussian noise to verify the effectiveness of the proposed approach and a set of traffic flow data was used to demonstrate the application of the proposed approach on the real-world de-nosing task. The experimental results indicate that the proposed approach is effective to determine the decomposition level.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 651)
• Pages: 757-762
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.651.757
• Online since: January 2013
• Authors: Yang Wang, Yan Yan Chen
• Keywords: Decomposition Level, Gamma Test, Noise Variance, Wavelet De-nosing, White Gaussian Noise

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