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I have 2 different signals and I'm trying to cross-correlate then using Python 2.7 and scipy.signal.correlate. How do I normalize my results (such that the max amplitude is 1.0? I tried the following:

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

t = np.linspace(0,2*np.pi,num=1000)
x1 = 10*np.sin(2*np.pi*t)
x2 = np.sin(2*np.pi*t+np.pi/2)
x12 = scipy.signal.correlate(x1,x2,'full')
plt.plot(x12)

results in the following plot enter image description here

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When you say normalized cross-correlation I guess you mean the Pearson correlation. Anyways you just divide the cross correlation by the multiplication of the std(standard deviation) of both signal, or more conveniently: $ \rho_{xy} =\frac{<x,y>}{\sigma_x\sigma_y}$

and in code:

x1 = x1/x1.std()
x2 = x2/x2.std() and then as you did it
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    $\begingroup$ i still have to divide x12 by the length of x1 (len(x1)=len(x2)) to get a normalized amplitude (rho(tau)). What is the relevance of that? $\endgroup$ – Devin Liner May 25 '17 at 18:14
  • $\begingroup$ Yea you'r right, you should divide with the length as well $\endgroup$ – Cherny May 26 '17 at 15:56

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