Variational Mode Decomposition

Variational Mode Decomposition (VMD) is a fully adaptive, non-recursive signal decomposition method introduced by Konstantin Dragomiretskiy and Dominique Zosso in 2014. It decomposes a real-valued input signal into a discrete number of sub-signals, called intrinsic mode functions (IMFs), each with a specific sparsity in the frequency domain. Unlike Empirical Mode Decomposition, VMD frames decomposition as a variational optimization problem solved via the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM), yielding robust and physically meaningful components.