Fisher Information as a Metric of Locally Optimal Processing and Stochastic Resonance

Fabing Duan, François Chapeau-Blondeau and Derek Abbott

PLOS ONE, 2012, vol. 7, issue 4, 1-6

Abstract: The origins of Fisher information are in its use as a performance measure for parametric estimation. We augment this and show that the Fisher information can characterize the performance in several other significant signal processing operations. For processing of a weak signal in additive white noise, we demonstrate that the Fisher information determines (i) the maximum output signal-to-noise ratio for a periodic signal; (ii) the optimum asymptotic efficacy for signal detection; (iii) the best cross-correlation coefficient for signal transmission; and (iv) the minimum mean square error of an unbiased estimator. This unifying picture, via inequalities on the Fisher information, is used to establish conditions where improvement by noise through stochastic resonance is feasible or not.

Date: 2012
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