OCTOBER 2012 VOLUME 60 NUMBER 10 ITPRED (ISSN 1053-587X) A Message from the Vice President of Publications on New Developments in Signal Processing Society Publications .. . . M. Ostendorf 5009 REGULAR PAPERS Statistical Signal Processing A Hybrid CPF-HAF Estimation of Polynomial-Phase Signals: Detailed Statistical Analysis .............................................. .................................................................................. I. Djurović, M. Simeunović, S. Djukanović, and P. Wang 5010 Approximate Inference in State-Space Models With Heavy-Tailed Noise ......... ......... G. Agamennoni, J. I. Nieto, and E. M. Nebot 5024 Distributed Maximum Likelihood for Simultaneous Self-Localization and Tracking in Sensor Networks ................................ ................................................................................................... N. K. Kantas, S. S. Singh, and A. Doucet 5038 Dynamic Bit Allocation for Object Tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks .......... .......... E. Masazade, R. Niu, and P. K. Varshney 5048 Robust Fault Detection With Statistical Uncertainty in Identified Parameters ........ ....... J. Dong, M. Verhaegen, and F. Gustafsson 5064 Accurate and Computationally Efficient Tensor-Based Subspace Approach for Multidimensional Harmonic Retrieval ................. ......................................................................................................................... W. Sun and H. C. So 5077 Charrelation and Charm: Generic Statistics Incorporating Higher-Order Information ............. ............. A. Slapak and A. Yeredor 5089 Adaptive Signal Processing Performance Limits for Distributed Estimation Over LMS Adaptive Networks ................ ................. X. Zhao and A. H. Sayed 5107 Digital and Multirate Signal Processing Shift Variance Measures for Multirate LPSV Filter Banks With Random Input Signals .............. .............. T. Aach and H. Führ 5125 An Information Theoretic Algorithm for Finding Periodicities in Stellar Light Curves .................................................... .................................................................... P. Huijse, P. A. Estévez, P. Protopapas, P. Zegers, and J. C. Príncipe 5135 Machine Learning On Confidence-Constrained Rank Recovery in Topic Models ......................... ......................... B. Behmardi and R. Raich 5146 Maximum Marginal Likelihood Estimation for Nonnegative Dictionary Learning in the Gamma-Poisson Model ....................... ................................................................................................................... O. Dikmen and C. Févotte 5163 Robust PCA as Bilinear Decomposition With Outlier-Sparsity Regularization ............. ............. G. Mateos and G. B. Giannakis 5176 Sensor Array and Multichannel Processing Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging Using Frame Theory .............. .............. Y. J. Huang, X. Wang, X. Li, and B. Moran 5191 MIMO Radar Sensitivity Analysis of Antenna Position for Direction Finding ......... ........ H. Chen, X. Li, W. Jiang, and Z. Zhuang 5201 Multitarget Tracking via Space Transformations Using a Single Frequency Continuous Wave Radar ..................................... ......................................................................................... P. N. Pathirana, S. C. K. Herath, and A. V. Savkin 5217 (Contents Continued on Back Cover)