A Novel Gaussian Window Approach for Empirical Mode Decomposition

Abstract

Empirical mode decomposition (EMD) is an algorithmic construction for decomposing multi-component signals into a series of intrinsic mode functions (IMFs). However, traditional EMD may encounter the difficulty of mode mixing when a signal contains intermittency. To solve the difficulty, a Gaussian window averaging method is proposed to construct the mean envelope of a given signal in each sifting process. The numerical analysis also demonstrates promising reliability with the proposed algorithm.