非高斯噪声下信号盲检测算法*

针对实际甚低频和超低频接收机不仅受非高斯噪声的影响,同时受到接收机内部和外部环境中高斯噪声影响的问题,对噪声采用高斯尺度混合分布和高斯分布的混合模型建模,根据混合模型的性质,设计了一种基于马尔可夫链蒙特卡罗方法的信号盲检测算法。盲检测算法在贝叶斯层次模型下,采用Gibbs抽样和M-H抽样更新参数,同步检测信道衰落系数、噪声模型参数和信号。算法迭代效率快、精度高。通过与最优检测性能比较,盲检测算法性能优异,对甚低频和超低频信号接收具有重要的现实意义。     

基于混合高斯概率密度的加权打分方法

针对当前评比打分方法不能有效反映选手真实情况的问题,提出了一种基于混合高斯概率密度的加权打分方法。该方法的重点在于引入混合高斯分布来确定专家评分的权重。首先利用EM算法确定混合高斯分布模型参数,然后通过区间划分得到每个区间上的概率,再将专家打分映射到混合高斯概率密度函数区间上得到对应的权重,最后经加权求和得到选手的最终成绩。通过实例证明了该方法的合理性和公正性。     

低信噪比下融合随机共振的运动目标检测算法

为提高智能视频监控系统中运动目标检测算法在低信噪比条件下的鲁棒性,结合混合高斯背景建模算法和随机共振原理实现一种低信噪比下的运动目标检测算法。算法根据混合高斯背景模型对当前帧生成目标概率灰度图,在本文定义的性能评价函数下,通过向该概率灰度图添加噪声使得评价函数最优化从而达到随机共振,对该随机共振灰度图进行阈值分割得到输出的检测目标。针对昏暗、大雾和红外视频分别进行了实验,证实了本文算法的有效性同时也显示本文算法相对于普通背景差算法性能获得了明显提升。     

非高斯背景条件下水声信号粒子滤波性能分析

基于贝叶斯滤波原理,介绍了粒子滤波(Particle Filter,PF)的基本思想和具体算法实现步骤。针对非高斯噪声对水下信号目标跟踪的影响,分别对符合高斯分布、韦伯分布和伽马分布的随机噪声序列,在噪声均值和方差相同的条件下,对比分析了扩展卡尔曼滤波(Extended Kaman Filter,EKF)算法和PF算法的估计精度。仿真结果表明,在非线性非高斯环境下EKF算法跟踪性能严重下降,而PF算法能继续保持较好的跟踪精度,证明PF算法在非线性非高斯系统中的有效性。     

盲稀疏度下基于粒子滤波的稀疏信号重构

针对现有贪婪迭代类压缩感知重构算法对非高斯量测噪声抵抗性差的问题,提出一种盲稀疏度下基于粒子滤波的稀疏信号重构算法。该算法首先将鲁棒性更高的Huber损失函数替代常规的二次损失函数,用来增加对非高斯噪声的抵抗能力;并且引入粒子滤波实现对原始信号的最优估计,以削弱量测噪声的影响;最后在信号稀疏度未知的条件下,结合稀疏度自适应匹配追踪算法实现盲稀疏度下的原信号重构。理论分析和仿真结果表明,所提算法可以有效抵抗因非高斯噪声干扰或稀疏度未知导致的重构精度降低,且重构性能优于现有典型贪婪迭代类算法。     

基于相位估计的湍流降质图像盲复原

地基望远镜观测的空间目标图像受大气湍流的影响,其分辨率受到很大的限制。为了提高湍流降质图像的复原效果,提出一种改进的盲解卷积方法。首先,考虑观测图像受到高斯噪声和泊松噪声的干扰,推导出基于混合噪声模型的盲解卷积代价函数;然后,根据傅里叶光学原理,利用波前相位表示点扩展函数,将点扩展函数从像素值估计转换为参数估计;最后,通过参数化表示方式,将代价函数寻优从约束最优化问题转换为无约束最优化问题。模拟实验结果验证了本文模型与数值算法的有效性。     

粒子滤波匹配追踪重构算法

针对现有贪婪迭代类压缩感知重构算法对非高斯量测噪声抵抗性差的问题,提出一种盲稀疏度下粒子滤波匹配追踪稀疏信号重构算法。该算法将鲁棒性更高的Huber损失函数替代常规的二次损失函数,用来增加对非高斯噪声的抵抗能力;并引入粒子滤波实现对原始信号的最优估计,以削弱量测噪声的影响;在信号稀疏度未知的条件下,结合稀疏度自适应匹配追踪算法实现盲稀疏度下的原信号重构。理论分析和仿真结果表明,所提算法可以有效抵抗因非高斯噪声干扰或稀疏度未知导致的重构精度降低,且重构性能优于现有典型贪婪迭代类算法。     

基于改进的混合高斯模型的背景建模方法

提出了一种基于改进的混合高斯模型的背景建模方法,克服了经典混合高斯模型方法计算量大和对长时间静止物体转为运动及光照突变较为敏感的缺点。首先,在经典混合高斯模型方法的基础上,引入了一种新的高斯分布个数的自适应选择策略,提高了建模效率。其次,分析了经典混合高斯模型方法对长时间静止物体转为运动及光照突变较为敏感的原因,采用了一种不同区域更新率的自适应选择策略,能够迅速响应场景的变化,有效地解决了大面积误检问题。通过在典型的场景下与经典混合高斯模型方法进行比较,验证了本文算法的有效性。     

基于IVA的卷积混合频域盲扰信分离算法研究

盲扰信分离是盲源分离算法在无线通信抗干扰中的应用。文章将独立向量分析(IVA)引入到卷积混合频域盲扰信分离算法中,克服了频域方法存在顺序不确定性和分离效果不佳的缺陷。仿真实验表明该算法的有效性,采用该算法实现了卷积混合条件下BPSK信号与多种干扰的扰信分离,具有一定的抗干扰能力。     

闪烁噪声条件下基于交互多模框架的雷达目标跟踪算法

针对传统雷达目标跟踪算法在处理闪烁噪声时面临的性能下降问题,提出一种将容积卡尔曼估计器与交互多模框架相结合的高性能滤波算法。该算法将目标状态建模为高斯分布,将闪烁噪声建模为混合高斯分布,同时将其发生概率建模为一阶马尔可夫过程;在此基础上,利用交互多模框架实现对不同高斯噪声分量的匹配滤波处理。为了减轻非线性观测条件对目标跟踪精度的影响,进一步采用容积卡尔曼估计器作为高斯近似滤波器,对目标状态进行递推预测和更新。仿真结果表明：所提算法较传统高斯混合滤波器和粒子滤波器具有更高的跟踪精度和更好的实时性能,同时还能对闪烁噪声出现时刻进行有效的估计。     

Helping hands: civil–military cooperation and Italy's military operation abroad

In the Post-Bipolar Era the growing complexity of the military operations requires a new approach for the resolution of international crises. Since the end of the Cold War, peace support operations (PSO) have become the mainstay and principal occupation of most Western armies. At the same time, Italy has been one of the most important actors in such an area. The article focuses on the cooperation between military and civil components (a process called CIMIC) as a key variable in the Italian PSOs. We will analyse in detail the main lessons learned from past military interventions as well as the general context in which new tendencies are taking place. The maintaining of a minimum security frame becomes essential to fulfil activities ‘collateral’ to the mission: reconstructing services and infrastructure, food distribution, water and medication, law and order, de-mining, training of local forces, and supporting local institutions. These are the main tasks to obtain thrust and support from the population.     

Terrorism,insurgency, kidnapping,and security in Africa's energy sector

Energy continues to serve as the bedrock of modern economies and the main driver of modern society. For Africa, the production and supply of energy resources such as crude oil, natural gas, uranium, coal, biomass, biofuels and other renewables are an important source of employment, rents, taxes, royalties and profits. This sector brings in several tens of billions of dollars of revenue annually. The production and delivery of such resources, however, depend on critical infrastructures such as pipelines, refineries, processing plants, terminals, rigs, electrical energy pylons, substations, pump stations, vessels, and tankers. These infrastructures have been attacked by terrorists, insurgents, vandals and saboteurs, all of whom see them as targets against which to register their grievances and extract concessions from the state. This paper is a chronological account of some of the documented incidents of terrorism, insurgency, kidnapping, destruction, sabotage, and human casualties suffered in the oil and gas sectors in Africa between 1999 and 2012. It is based on data extracted from the databases of the RAND Database of World Terrorism Incidents and the University of Maryland's Global Terrorism Database (GTD).     

The UK,interrogation and Iraq, 2003–2008

The UK’s interrogation operations during the conflict in Iraq (2003–2008) are often portrayed by the media as involving significant amounts of mistreatment. This article demonstrates that these practices are not necessarily representative of the UK’s interrogation operations across this conflict. In doing so it contributes to the limited literature on the practice of interrogation and on the UK’s combat operations in Iraq. The UK’s interrogation capability, and therefore its intelligence-gathering capability, is shown to have rested primarily with the military’s Joint Forward Interrogation Team (JFIT). The JFIT suffered from limitations to the number, training and experience of its interrogators and interpreters. It is argued that maintaining a permanent, higher level of preparedness for interrogation by the British armed forces is desirable.     

Remembering and forgetting Mirambo: Histories of war in modern Africa

ABSTRACT

While the study of organised violence is considered essential to understanding the history of the West, and accordingly imbued with various layers of meaning and remembrance, war is widely regarded as inimical to the modern nation in Africa and stable development more broadly. Using examples drawn from primarily from East Africa, this paper considers the ways in which warfare in the deeper (‘precolonial’) past has been framed and envisioned in recent decades, in particular by governments whose own roots lie in revolutionary armed struggle and who began life as guerrilla movements. While in some cases particular elements of the deeper past were indeed mobilised in pursuit of contemporary political goals, in many other scenarios histories of precolonial violence were beheld as problematic and unworthy of remembrance. This paper highlights the paradox and ambiguity which has attended the memory of key aspects of Africa’s deeper past.     

A1 Qaeda and the radical Islamic challenge to western strategy

The September 11 global crisis prompted by the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon raises major questions concerning the nature and trajectory of terrorism in the post-Cold War global order. Hitherto, terrorism has been largely debated by analysts at the level of nation states. Terrorist and insurgent movements have also been largely anchored in nationalist and ethnic power bases even when they have sought to mobilise a transnational ideological appeal on religious or class grounds. There have been a few exceptions to this pattern such as the alliance between the German Baader-Meinhof group and the Japanese Red Army Faction, but even such international alliances as this did not, until at least the 1980s, presage anything like a global terrorist network necessitating a global strategic response. This study examines terrorism and global strategic responses.     

Tacit support for terrorism: The rapprochement between the USSR and Palestinian guerrilla organizations following the 1967 war

This article demonstrates the inconsistent and wavering Soviet attitude towards national liberation movements in general and the Palestinian organizations in particular. Until the late 1960s, the Soviets viewed these organizations with suspicion, hesitating to engage in political dialogue with them. However, in the 1970s, political and military events in the region, as well as modifications in the Kremlin's Cold War strategies, led to a general shift towards the Middle East in Soviet foreign policy. Soviet leaders showed increased willingness to provide certain Palestinian organizations with arms with which to conduct terrorist activities against Israeli, pro-Israeli, Jewish and Western targets. The article explores the complex relations between Palestinian organizations and the USSR in the field of international terror. The study also exposes and analyzes the nature and content of Soviet–Palestinian arms dialogues and transactions. It provides clear evidence that Soviet policymakers and other luminaries were fully informed of, and sometimes directly involved in, these transactions and dialogues at the highest levels.     

SIM—LISP:一个通信网络管理专家系统外壳的设计与实现

本文介绍了笔者为开发名为OONMES的网络管理专家系统所实现的一个简单专家系统工具SIM-LISP。SIM-LISP是一个用C/C++语言来实现的模拟LISP语言的可调用函数集,它短小精巧,速度快,可以完成针对网管专家系统的事实或规则知识的表示、匹配、合一和推理等基本操作,并有与知识对象的连接功能,是网管专家系统内核实现的支撑环境。     

Helping hands: external support for the KNU insurgency in Burma

This article analyses to what extent the Burmese KNU insurgency made use of external support from states, refugees, and diasporas. Based on extensive fieldwork it is concluded that support from neighbouring states and refugees has for years kept the Karen rebellion alive. Western countries perceived forms of resistance to the illegitimate Burmese regime as just and have therefore played a crucial role in the continuation of conflict in Karen State. It is important that policymakers and donors as well as executing organizations continue to reflect critically on the way they exercise their work.     

Al Qaida on the US invasion of Afghanistan in their own words

This article consists of selected translations from captured interviews and dairies of Al Qaida members. The time period covered is from mid-2001 to early 2002 and concerns their operations in Afghanistan. The material clearly conveys a range of emotion, from confident to despondent, as well as efforts to contest the US actions. The first several pages give the reader context and some possible “lessons learned,” but the story(ies) are best told by the Al Qaida members themselves. All names are pseudonyms.     

基于GTST-DMLD-ESD的装备RMS建模仿真

装备的RMS是装备的重要设计参数,是影响战备完好和保障能力的关键因素.引入GTST-DMLD作为主要建模工具,建立起装备系统的RMS描述模型,以ESD为补充和扩展,对维修过程进行建模.并以GTST-DMLD-ESD模型作为装备RMS仿真的核心,对装备RMS仿真模型的总体框架进行了研究,并对各模块进行了较为详细的探讨.