Sayeed, Akbar M.2007-10-312007-10-311997-01-201997-01-20A. M. Sayeed, "Data Driven Signal Detection and Classification," 1997.https://hdl.handle.net/1911/20334Conference PaperIn many practical detection and classification problems, the signals of interest exhibit some uncertain nuisance parameters, such as the unknown delay and Doppler in radar. For optimal performance, the form of such parameters must be known and exploited as is done in the generalized likelihood ratio test (GLRT). In practice, the statistics required for designing the GLRT processors are not available a <i>priori</i> and must be estimated from limited training data. Such design is virtually impossible in general due to two major difficulties: <i>identifying</i> the appropriate nuisance parameters, and <i>estimating</i> the corresponding GLRT statistics. We address this problem by using recent results that relate joint signal representations (JSRs), such as time-frequency and time-scale representations, to quadratic GLRT processors for a wide variety of nuisance parameters. We propose a general data-driven framework that: 1) <i>identifies</i> the appropriate nuisance parameters from an arbitrarily chosen finite set, and 2) <i>estimates</i> the second-order statistics that characterize the corresponding JSR-based GLRT processors.enggeneralized likelihood ratio testjoint signal representationsTime Frequency and Spectral AnalysisConference papergeneralized likelihood ratio testjoint signal representationshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.1997.604670