Questions tagged [autocorrelation]
Autocorrelation is the cross-correlation of a signal with itself.
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Autocorrelation of random walk
I want to analyze the auto-correlation of a received power signal that I captured. Unfortunately, I cannot publish the data but I found the same problem arises for a random walk, that's why I used the ...
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The autocorrelation vector of frequency data
I am trying to find the correlation of audio frequency data resulting from an FFT with itself. It would be interesting to hear what you all think on the following question :
Should one use the complex ...
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What is the Laplace Transform of the output power spectrum if the input signal is a white noise?
Let us consider a random wide-sense stationary process $n(t)$, which passes through a filter $h(t, \tau)$. Its autocorrelation function is
$$R_{n^\prime}(t)=\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} \int_{-\infty}^{\...
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Extract a signal from noise, so I can view noise spectrum only?
I have a perfect modulated signal.
I have the same signal but with noise, this noise is from non linear amplification.
Is it possible, to extract the clean signal so it's just leaving the noise? The ...
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Autocorrelation and the dot product of complex signals
I have a question for the signal processing community.
When trying to calculate the autocorrelation of an array containing complex data, could the result be purely imaginary, and is there any ...
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Autocorrelation & Cross-Correlation -> Main uses in DSP??
Please help understanding the DSP usage of Autocorrelation & Cross-correlation
It seems this is strongly linked to calculating phase offsets, frequency offset for carrier recovery, symbol timing ...
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Analysis of two audio signal by autocorrelation
I have recorded my audio by two hardware, PC and Microcontroller, I know the PC result are correct but my signal have some deficit. I have recorded by my PC and MCU my voice 6s 7812Hz and ...
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Deterministic process, what is it ? how can i get a better intuition for it?
so I was following this code where the author cleans the data for a time series problem. He does some feature engineering , all is well and good
until he does this
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The Amplitude of the Correlation Function Peaks After Matched Filtering
I have 2 signals: $s_1(t)$ and $s_2(t)$. The autocorrelation functions are given by $R_{s_1}(\tau)$ and $R_{s_2}(\tau)$ with $|R_{s_2}(\tau)|<|R_{s_1}(\tau)|$.
I would like to know if the previous ...
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How to draw the PSD from a time series
I try to draw the spectral density of a time series in order to compare it with the theoretical one.
Please can any one help me to do this.
This is the time series of all the data.
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How to determine multiple Periodicities present in Timeseries data?
My objective is to detect all kinds of seasonalities and their time periods that are present in a timeseries waveform.
I'm currently using the following dataset:
https://www.kaggle.com/rakannimer/air-...
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Power spectral density and auto correlation function: Frequency vs time representation
I have a time correlated periodic signal $a(t)$ with $t=0,1,...,T$ and $a(t+T) = a(t)$ that has been sampled at rate $\Delta t$ and I analyse the signal using the PSD via FFT and the ACF. As far as I ...
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Is maximum cross-correlation achieved at the origin?
Let $x[n]$ and $y[n]$ be two DT random signals with $x[n]\xrightarrow{\mathcal{H}}y[n]$ through some system $\mathcal{H}$ that is deterministic yet unknown.\
Define both the autocorrelation and cross-...
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Sampling rates for uncorrelated samples
I'm given the autocorrelation of a WSS random process
and the question asks to find the sampling rate that yields uncorrelated samples.
As far as I understand where looking for the $\tau$'s where $...
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SNR calculation via autocorrelation
I am given the following task, however, I am lost conceptually, and require some assistance on the procedure.
Given raw noisy data where the signal is a single sinusoid and noise is a random content. ...
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Hard time figuring out whether the following random process is wide sense stationary
I'm dealing with a random process that's simply a square wave with pulse period T, where:
Each pulse takes either $A$ or $-A$ depending on a coin toss.
The wave is shifted by a random $t_d$ where $...
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How design a filter to obtain a desired autocorrelation in output
I have a signal x(n) with a given autocorrelation function ACF, $R_x(\tau) \neq 0$ for $\tau=1, \cdots ,L$
My question is how can i design a filter (better with a few coefficients) to obtain a signal $...
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Fourier transform from the PSD
I need to compute the Fourier transform o the time derivative of the autocorrelation function (ACF) of a discrete signal with sign changed. Lets call it $Y(\omega)$.
I had some computations problems ...
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Limiting value of autocorrelation of wide-sense stationary process
Let random process $X$ is wide-sense stationary process. Where could I find the source or verification of the statement that, when the limiting value of autocorrelation $\lim_{\tau\rightarrow\infty}...
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Is there relationship between autocorrelations Rx(2) and Rx(1)?
There is a random process, $X:\mathbb{Z}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ in discrete-time domain, which is wide-sense stationary with zero mean and autocorrelation function $R_X(\tau)$.
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Near Real Time Algorithm For Approximating Fundamental Frequency
I'd like to analyse the notes being played on a cello C2(65.4Hz) to C6(1046.5Hz) recorded on a PC and thus a likely sampling rate of 44.1kHz. If I can get that to behave then I'd like to be able to ...
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Specify a random process such that $R_Y[0]=3+u$, $R_Y[1]=-2+u$, and $R_Y[k]=u$ otherwise
there is a problem that I should specify a real-valued random process $Y[n]$ such that the autocorrelation function $R_Y[k]$ satisfies
$$R_Y[0]=3+u,\ R_Y[1]=R_Y[-1]=-2+u,\ \text{and}\ R_Y[k]=u, |k|>...
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Frequency representation of relaxation processes
I simulated a discrete sample of a variable whose autocorrelation function (ACF) should theoretically be composed of a sum of exponential-like functions.
My goal is to represent it in the frequency ...
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Confusion In DC power,Average Power,Ac Power and total Power
These are Things I studied.
$ E[X]:-$ THis gives us Average value or Dc value
$E[X^2]:-$Total power
$\sigma^2=E[X^2]-E[X]^2$:-Ac power
From Autocorrelation
$R_x(0)=E[X^2]$--Total power
And $ \lim_{x\...
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Autocorrelation via real FFT and real IFFT
I am working on a fast autocorrelation function using the FFT (similar to scipy.signal.fftconvolve). The algorithm is pretty straight forward but
I feel like I'm ...
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dimensions of the autocorrelation function of white noise
My question concerns the dimensions of the autocorrelation function of the white noise.
First is a short summary of what I understand about the random signals. If we have a stationary random signal $x(...
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Given an AR signal, find its PSD, its autocorrelation function
I am studying discrete-random signal processing, Could anyone tell me by an example or reference what it means by the following?
Given an AR signal, find its PSD (power spectral density), its ...
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What is the meaning of WSS [duplicate]
I’m wondering what it means for a signal to be wss.
I know that the statistics of a wss signal does not change over time because it’s mean is time - invariant, but what it means for the ...
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How to interpret values of the autocorrelation sequence?
I know that (auto)correlation indicates the "degree of predictability" of a variable with respect of another. However, this is a vague notion. I know that a blank process should have an ...
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Find some signal x[n] whose auto-correlation function is R[k] [closed]
I want to write a MATLAB code for generating a random message signal 𝑥[n] where its autocorrelation function
is:
R[k] = sinc^2 [1/4 k] where k is an integer. (Hint: Generate a process where ...
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How does the PSD depend on sample size?
My question is this:
Do the 'amplitudes' of a PSD depend on the number of samples on which it is based?
One definition of the PSD I have found is:
$$
P_{xx}(\Omega_m) = \frac{X(\Omega_m)\cdot\bar{X}(\...
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Difference between reference and measurement signal?
Which differences can we find on various signals? We assume that we have a reference signal (determined theoretically) and measured signal.
Which methods exist for determining the similarities ...
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Identify and remove repeated audio chunks
I have some audio produced by a buggy recorder, at some point it may start two recording streams, each stream captures chunks of audio and write to a file. The buffer queue is processed asynchronously,...
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2D space and 1D time evolution of a random field
I also asked this on math stack-exchange, but it is also relevant for the signal processing community.
I want to develop a 2D random field and its change with time with constant velocity. My process:
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How to properly band-pass filter an autocorrelated signal?
Let's consider an example ECG time series, sampled at 360Hz:
I verified that autocorrelating a signal preserves its frequency content. For instance, both original and autocorrelated data show the ...
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Auto/cross correlation for data set with multiple realizations
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For an assignment, I need to find the correlation matrix of a dataset with 100 random variables and 1000 realizations for each. (It's a stock market example).
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Kay Statistical Signal Processing Estimation Theory Example 7.14
Example 7.14 from Kay Estimation Theory
A common WSS random process has the ACF
$$r_{xx}[k]=
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1+b[1]^{2}+b[2]^{2} & \text{k = 0}\\
b[1] +b[1]b[2] & \text{k=1}\\
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Noise model as Sinc function
In "Fundamentals of signal processing: estimation theory", example 3.13 Kay has used a model of band-limited Gaussian noise with a uniform PSD and a sinc autocorrelation function. I expected ...
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Beep Signal for Latency Calculation
I want to play audios on two mobiles with sync. But mobile phones are not in sync. I am trying to find two Mobile phones playing latency so I can pad latency on each phone so they can play together. ...
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Symmetries of analyticity / zero self-correlation
I seek to understand symmetry properties of analytic sequences, without referring to frequency domain: what criteria must a complex sequence $x[n]$ satisfy to be analytic? Framed alternatively, such a ...
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How this convolution integral is solved to obtain autocorrelation function of current for shot noise?
I am studying shot noise characteristics from this source:
Here the author writes that autocorrelation function is given by:
$$R_I(\tau)=\bar{h}*h*R_Z(\tau)$$
where $R_Z(\tau)=q^2(\lambda^2+\lambda \...
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Relation between bandwidth and amplitude of auto correlation of chirp signal
I am trying to understand the properties of chirp signals and their characteristics.
I plotted the autocorrelation of a chirp signal in MATLAB.
How can I compute the relation between the amplitude of ...
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Should upsampling impact the amplitude of an autocorrelated signal?
I want to autocorrelate a signal using numpy's correlate method.
Let us consider a 10 minutes long signal sampled at 2,000SPS:
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Restrictiveness of the condition that different signals give same autocorrelation sequence
I'm having a set of N real data points that correspond to the autocorrelation sequence at N different lags. Suppose I know that the original set of data from which the autocorrelation was computed ...
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Create a Range Doppler Map using "Arbitrary" phase coded Waveforms
This is my first questions I am asking to this community!
I want to understand how to create a Range-Doppler Map (RDM) for a phase/frequency coded radar return using an arbitrary waveform generator (...
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Method to generate binary sequences with desired cross-correlation and autocorrelation properties
I am looking for a method to generate two binary sequences of length $N$ with the following properties:
Very good cross-correlation for all shifts.
Good enough autocorrelation for all shifts except ...
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Allan Variance vs Autocorrelation - Advantages
I am currently studying oscillator stability and have come across the Allan variance. I gather that it was developed as an alternative to the standard variance as it doesn't necessarily converge for ...
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How to select the ARMA model parameters?
I have a series of data containing 120,000 points. The mean of each N(=60) point is zero. I want to forecast the next 60 points using the ARMA model. My question is, specificaly, how to choose the ...
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Extremes of integral of the autocorrelation theorem
I am trying to apply the correlation theorem (here attached) to this definition of correlation of a finite continuous signal $g(t)$:
$\rho(\tau)=\frac{1}{T} \int_{t_{0}}^{ t_{0}+T}g(t)^{.}g(t+\tau)dt ...
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Question about a demonstration of the autocorrelation theorem
I’m stuck on this demonstration.
It says:
If $x'$ is held constant, $dx=dy$
How can $x’$ be constant? Shouldn't $x’$ be a variable?
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