Investigation and evaluation of cross-term reduction in masked Wigner-Ville distributions using S-transforms.

Non-linear and non-stationary signals are analyzed and processed in the time-frequency (TF) domain due to interpretation simplicity. Wigner-Ville distribution (WVD) delivers a very sharp resolution of non-stationary signals in the TF domain. However, cross-terms occur between true frequency modes due to their bilinear nature.