On chirp and some related signals analysis: a brief review and some new results (Q2051023)

The paper under review addresses the problems of analysis of one-dimensional chirp, two-dimensional chirp, and some related signal processing models. The main goal here is to introduce the challenges associated with these problems to the statistical community with a hope that it will generate enough interests among the statisticians to contribute in this area of research. The authors provide a comprehensive review of different one-dimensional, two-dimensional, generalized chirp signals, and some new chirp signal like models, which can be used quite effectively for analyzing real life signals. Various issues associated with these models are examined, which are related to the statistical inference of the unknown parameters and asymptotic properties of resulting estimators. Several open problems are presented throughout the paper for future research.