Transient detection using a homogeneity test
Biao Chen, Peter Willett, R. Streit · 1999
A simple yet effective statistic is proposed for detecting a transient buried in partially unknown ambient noise. The transient model is frequency scattered increased variance observations. We pose the transient detection problem as a homogeneity test and the statistic is derived as the (generalized) likelihood ratio test of overdispersion when the underlying observation sequence follows a double exponential distribution. Numerical testing focuses on the comparison of this scheme with the CFAR power-law detector.