Two empirical methods for improving the performance of statistical multirate high-resolution signal reconstruction

•Statistical multirate high-resolution signal reconstruction problem is addressed.•Two empirical methods for improving the performance of this problem are proposed.•Empirical mode decomposition and least squares support vector machine are used.•The effectiveness of the proposed methods is supported by computer simulations.

The problem of reconstructing a known high-resolution signal from a set of its low-resolution parts exposed to additive white Gaussian noise is addressed in this paper from the perspective of statistical multirate signal processing. To enhance the performance of the existing high-resolution signal reconstruction procedure that is based on using a set of linear periodically time-varying (LPTV) Wiener filter structures, we propose two empirical methods combining empirical mode decomposition- and least squares support vector machine regression-based noise reduction schemes with these filter structures. The methods originate from the idea of reducing the effects of white Gaussian noise present in the low-resolution observations before applying them directly to the LPTV Wiener filters. Performances of the proposed methods are evaluated over one-dimensional simulated signals and two-dimensional images. Simulation results show that, under certain conditions, considerable improvements have been achieved by the proposed methods when compared with the previous study that only uses a set of LPTV Wiener filter structures for the signal reconstruction process.

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