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Time-delay estimation is developed in the transform domain where discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficients of time-varying delay signals are estimated. The DCT is very efficient in compacting the signal energy in a small number of coefficients. Hence, the estimation of time-varying delay is obtained through the calculation of a small number of the DCT coefficients. An online maximum likelihood estimator of time-varying delay is developed. The coefficients of the transformed delay signal are obtained by maximizing the likelihood function. When dealing with noisy signals, it is observed that increasing the number of estimated DCT coefficients beyond a certain level does not produce better estimates of the delay signal. This happens because the extra DCT coefficients accommodate the noise present in the received signals.
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Shaltaf, S., Abdallah, M. An enhanced technique for online discrete cosine transform-based time-varying delay estimation. Circuits Systems and Signal Process 19, 501–515 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01271285
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