Open AccessEnergy conservation‐based thresholding for effective wavelet denoising of partial discharge signals
Author(s) -
Hussein Ramy,
Shaban Khaled Bashir,
ElHag Ayman H.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
iet science, measurement and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.418
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1751-8830
pISSN - 1751-8822
DOI - 10.1049/iet-smt.2016.0168
Subject(s) - thresholding , wavelet , noise reduction , energy (signal processing) , noise (video) , pattern recognition (psychology) , artificial intelligence , wavelet transform , computer science , signal to noise ratio (imaging) , signal (programming language) , context (archaeology) , mathematics , step detection , noise measurement , computer vision , statistics , image (mathematics) , filter (signal processing) , paleontology , biology , programming language
Recent studies have shown that wavelet transform can effectively be used for noise reduction in the context of partial discharge (PD) signal detection and classification. Several thresholding approaches for wavelet denoising have been reported in the literature. In this study, a novel wavelet threshold estimation method, named energy conservation‐based thresholding (ECBT), is introduced. The proposed thresholding function is capable of conserving a significant portion of the original signal energy, while the threshold value is determined based on the relative difference between the original and noisy signal energies. The proposed method is first applied to PD signals contaminated with different levels of simulated noise. Results show that ECBT produces a denoised PD signal with higher signal‐to‐noise ratio (SNR) and less distortion than PDs produced by the existing wavelet methods. Then, ECBT is modified to address actual PD signals corrupted with real noise, where a robust SNR estimation method is derived to estimate the noise level embedded in the measured PD signals. The denoised PD signals indicate that the proposed method yields higher reduction in noise levels than other methods.