Compressive spectral estimation for nonstationary random processes

We propose a ldquocompressiverdquo estimator of the Wigner-Ville spectrum (WVS) for time-frequency sparse, underspread, nonstationary random processes. A novel WVS estimator involving the signal's Gabor coefficients on an undersampled time-frequency grid is combined with a compressed sensing transformation in order to reduce the number of measurements required. The performance of the compressive WVS estimator is analyzed via a bound on the mean square error and through simulations. We also propose an efficient implementation using a special construction of the measurement matrix.