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Zeros of the Spectrogram of Colored Noise

Luis Alberto Escudero, Günther Koliander, José Luis Romero

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Source: arXiv

Published: Sep 16, 2026

arXiv: 2609.18689

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We study the expected number of zeros of the Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT) with a Gaussian window for signals degraded by complex Gaussian colored noise. We provide an exact formula for this quantity and investigate its asymptotic behavior. From a computational perspective, we propose an algorithmic method to recover a smoothed power spectral density (PSD) directly from the spatial distribution of the transform's zeros. Our results formalize the commonly-held heuristic that detection algorithms based on spectrogram zeros, though designed for white noise, also perform adequately under moderately colored noise.

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