Enforcing positiveness on estimated spectral densities

Abstract
Estimated spectral densities may often take on negative values in some frequency bands, and hence need be corrected to become positive for all frequencies. The Letter describes a most natural approach to enforcing the positiveness condition on an estimated spectral density, which is shown to lead to a semi-infinite optimisation problem. In the numerical example reported, the latter problem is solved by using the Matlab Optimization Toolbox.