Martins, Allan de MedeirosGuimarães, João Paulo Ferreira2020-03-202020-03-202019-09-30GUIMARÃES, João Paulo Ferreira. Correntropia complexa: definição, propriedades e aplicações. 2019. 116f. Tese (Doutorado em Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação) - Centro de Tecnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2019.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/28615Recent studies have demonstrated that correntropy is an efficient tool for analyzing higher-order statistical moments in non-Gaussian noise environments. Although correntropy has been used with complex-valued data, no theoretical study was pursued to elucidate its properties, nor how to best use it for optimization. By using a probabilistic interpretation, this work presents a novel similarity measure between two complex-valued random variables, which is defined as complex correntropy. Its properties are studied as well as a new recursive solution for the Maximum Complex Correntropy Criterion (MCCC) and two algorithms are derived, one based on the ascendent gradient and a second one on a fixed-point solution. Simulations were made in order to evaluate how robust this new measure is to impulsive noise in different problems: liner system identification, channel equalization and in a compressive sensing problem. It is also shown the application of complex correntropy as a tool to analyse the similarity between angles. The results demonstrate prominent advantages of the proposed method when compared with the classical algorithms in the literature.Acesso AbertoCorrentropiaDados complexosMedida de similaridadeCorrentropia complexa: definição, propriedades e aplicaçõesdoctoralThesisCNPQ::ENGENHARIAS::ENGENHARIA ELETRICA