Questions tagged [cross-correlation]
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Correlation/anticorrelation as a function of frequency
I am tracking the values of two fluctuating quantities as a function of time and am trying to analyze possible correlations between the two as a function of frequency. The application is experimental ...
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Increasing error safety in the cross correlation of two binary signals in wireless communication
I want to cross correlate two binary signals, where one is corrupted by noise and shifted by a time constant $\tau$, but has the same bit pattern (so basically an auto correlation). Similar to case 2 ...
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Signals Cross Correlation from Their Power Spectral Densities?
For two real valued signals $f$ and $g$ with their corresponding power spectral densities $|F(k)|^2$ and $|G(k)|^2$ Is there a way to get an intuition of how correlated $f$ and $g$ are just by looking ...
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What is the physical meaning of the cross-spectrum of two signals measured at two locations and different moment?
I am working with steady state pressure field measurement where sound pressure at multiple locations in the field needs to be measured. In my case, more than one microphone existing in the field at ...
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Threshold for CAF Surface
I am calculating a time partitioned Cross Ambiguity Function (CAF) by adding the surfaces of different time-sectioned CAFs together. Meaning, I calculate a CAF using 10 seconds of IQ data, calculate a ...
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Find a simple sine wave buried within noise, FFT or cross-correlation?
My recorded signal x = s + v, where s = A*sin(ωt) and v = noise. SNR < 1 or ~ 1. So the sine wave is buried under a lot of noise.
I need to compare the relative amplitudes of s for each recording ...
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What's the difference between Wavelet transform coherency and Singular Spectrum Analysis
I know that Wavelet transform Coherence is the most common method to find the linkage between two time series, in field of finance.
Can we use Singular Spectrum Analysis to find out the linkage of ...
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Aperiodic Correlation function using FFT Method
Periodic correlation function between two binary sequences say x and y can be computed using FFT. corr_value = ifft(fft(x).*conj(fft(y));
Can some one please help on how to compute aperiodic ...
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How to find location of impedance in electrical (transmission line) network using reflectometry?
I am trying to find the location of impedance mismatch on the transmission line network using sequence time-domain reflectometry through MATLAB Simulink. In this work, I can find the location of some ...
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Time delay estimation between two complex signals(IQ)
I need to time align two complex signals. The two signals obtained were at different RF frequency before digitisation. So,I have two complex signals(IQ) and I need to do delay estimation and apply ...
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Time delay estimation of signals increasingly decorrelated
The problem may be summarized as follows: I have a stochastic signals and I want to measure an increasing delay, as depicted in the following picture. The picture represents the signal as it is being ...
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Normalized cross-correlation in frequency domain
I never worked with signal processing and never really used Fourier transforms before, still I am working on a project consisting on taking the output of an accelerometer to detect some movement ...
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Confusion in the derivation of convolution formula [closed]
$$x(t)=\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}x(\tau)\delta(\tau-t)d\tau=\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}x(\tau)\delta(t-\tau)d\tau$$
Due to linearity,
$$y(t)=T\{x(t)\}=\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}x(\tau)T\{\delta(\tau-t)\}d\tau=\...
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Matched filter and cross correlation in digital processing
I am very new to signal processing, and a bit confused with the matched filter.
Assume that I have a time series and a specific waveform I need to identify in it. By definition:
a matched filter ...
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False negative probability of cross-correlation
Suppose $D$ is a string of length $L$ where its values are uniformly distributed in $[-a,a]$. Also, all values of $D$ are independent (i.i.d).
$X$ is a noisy version of $D$ in this way: $X=D+N$ where ...
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GCC-PHAT (Generalized cross correlation) always peak at delay=0 on real audio signal
I have studied the GCC-PHAT algorithm to estimate TDOA on audio signals at 2 mics.
Here is my MATLAB implementation:
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Why can Sum of Squared Differences (SSD) seen as cross-correlation?
In this slides, on page 4, the SSD can be seen as cross-correlation:
http://www.lira.dist.unige.it/teaching/SINA/slides-current/pyramids.pdf
http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~kosta/CompVis_Notes/ssd_cross-...
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Preamble detection using cross-correlation
I am generating a preamble with a sequence of [1 -1 1 -1 1 -1....] and spread with a barker-11 sequence. Now, the transmitted signal becomes [B(Barker), -B(Inverse of Barker), B, -B,....]. In channel, ...
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Correlation between 2 signals of uneven dimensions
As a part of my work, I am trying to correlate the audio signal in a video with the pixels of each frame. The steps I follow are:
Audio sampling rate and frame rate of the video are known. So, ...
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What is the meaning of positive and negative shift in signal correlation?
If $x(t)$ and $y(t)$ are real valued signal then from this page cross correlation between them is defined as
\begin{align}
R_{XY}(\tau) &= \int_{-\infty}^{\infty}x(t)y(t-\tau) dt\quad\text{+ve ...
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Basics of Normalizing Cross-Correlation with a View to Comparing Signals
I'm trying to understand how cross-correlation is used determine the similarity of two signals. This tutorial offers a very clear explanation of the basics, but I still don't understand how to use ...
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Comparing multiple signals for similarity
I have multiple (between 2 and 100) signals and need to determine when a significant number diverge from the rest. We're exploring machine learning techniques, but we also want tackle this as a signal ...
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Cramér-Rao lower bound
I have been trying to implement the Cramér-Rao lower bound from the paper - A reference-free time difference of arrival source localization using a passive sensor array (eq. 6 and eq. 7).
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Interpolation of audio for new frames
I am trying to upsample a video by existing frame interpolation techniques. In the process, I realize that I also need to interpolate the audio signal for the new frames so that the audio signal is in ...
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Findin the source direction using cross-correlation function
I am new to DSP and I'm working on the following problem.
We have a sound source in the far field and a microphone array consisting of two microphones with distance d. We want to determine the source ...
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Two different definitions of cross-correlation
I have come across two different definitions of the cross-correlation function:
$$
R_{XY}(\tau) = \int_{-\infty}^{+\infty} x(t) y(t+ \tau) dt
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R_{XY}(\tau) = \int_{-\infty}^{+\infty} x(t)...
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Interpolation of missing audio signal in a video sequence
Suppose there is a video sequence and there are some frames for which the audio data is missing. I want to interpolate the missing audio data on the basis of the correlation of the audio signal with ...
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Why is the sound field intensity due to $K$ point sources given by $ I(p,\omega) = \sum_{k=1}^K \sigma_k^2(\omega) \delta(p - p_k)$?
I am trying to understand the following piece of text. I am not used to dealing with sound intensity and power so I'm not familiar with the derivation of the formula $(*)$ below.
Statement: 1.
We ...
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Problem understanding the Expectation Operator
I know that the Expectation Operator $E\{x\}$ four discrete values is
$$ \sum_k \alpha Pr(x = \alpha_k)$$
and its very intuitive when speaking out a formula which contains the Expectation Operator. ...
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GPS Coarse Acquisition PRN Codes
Are the actual 1023 bit sequences for each of the 32 GPS satellites available to consumers? I found the IS GPS 200 but it doesn't list the entire sequences. Are verified sequences available for ...
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Cross-correlation peaks in acoustic multi-path conditions
Consider a speaker and a microphone are placed in a multi-path environment and the audio signal to be transmitted is LFM(chirp) signal, the time of arrival of the audio signal is computed by cross-...
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GPS CA Signal Acquisition
The coarse acquisition C/A GPS signal has a symbol rate or chip rate of 1.023 Mcps with code period of 1 ms. The code bandwidth is +/-1.023MHz (to 1st sinc nulls). I'd like to record this signal using ...
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finding the audio pulse compression peak in extra-low SNR scenario?
I just want to obtain some general ideas for such a scenario: if the environmental noise is extremely strong and the audio signal at the receiver is extremely weak(for instance, low range propagation),...
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Wiener Filter in Frequency Domain: What it does to a specific Frequency?
As I understand Wiener filter in time domain tries to estimate a signal as close as possible to its (original) non-degraded signal using the degraded signal by white noise.
$$H(\omega)=\frac{\Phi_{...
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Maximum of cross-correlation not moving
I already asked this question here yesterday, but it was very poorly worded I think. I made a much more detailled post explaining my problem of stackoverflow, as it might also be a code problem.
Here ...
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Common mode signal cancellation on multi-channel system
I have a system consisting of 32 horizontal plus 32 vertical charge sensitive wires. They are part of a particle detector and each one is coupled to a charge amplifier consisting of preamp stage ...
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How to find shift between two signals with Cross correlation?
I have calculated the cross-correlation function between to waveforms. I would like to find the shift between the two waveforms from the peak of the cross-correlation function. I am not really sure ...
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Why does the addition of noise improve coherence between two signals?
Taking a simple example of the coherence between two signals, each composed of two sinusoids of frequency 100 and 200 Hz, I expect the coherence to show two peaks in the spectrum located at precisely ...
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Trouble with time-syncing two radio signals using cross-correlation
I posted a similar question a while ago here (I'm posting this follow-up since I'd like to focus more on cross-correlation now). I have a setup where I have two software-defined radios connected to ...
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Subtracting audio signal emitted - trying to use spectral subtraction to localize moving objects
I am a Software Engineer without much signal processing background and currently spending and experimenting to get use to it.
My scenario: Assume a speaker and a microphone array. A speaker emits an ...
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Why is the correlation of two random markov chains so large?
A very simple python code shows that the correlation coefficient and spearmann rank between two datasets of uniform random numbers drops proportionally to the square root of the number of points in ...
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How can I align these two signals? Cross correlation isn't working properly
I have two radios sampling simultaneously, and I am trying to time-align their two signals (they will always start sampling at slightly different times with random delays due to hardware differences). ...
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The explanation of $|R_{XY}(\tau)| \le \sqrt{R_{XX}(0)R_{YY}(0)}$
If i said the explanation of $|R_{XX}(\tau)| \le R_{XX}(0)$ is that in the time domain,any signal wave are the same as itself when it doesn't shift.Then what is the explanation of $|R_{XY}(\tau)| \le ...
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Group delay using cross correlation?
An input signal + (thermal) noise travels through a channel and can be measured at its output.
Is it possible to use cross correlation between input and output signal to measure group delay? If not, ...
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No cross-correlation between same signal recorded using two different microphones
I've recorded the same audio signal using two microphones located at the same approximate location. However, when checking the cross-correlation using MATLAB (using the xcorr function) it is ...
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PHAT filtering for cross-correlation yields wrong results while simple cross-correlation does OK (Python)
I work with two signals, the second being perfectly delayed and attenuated, with no reverberation. I implemented cross-correlation algorithm, which yields me these results:
Here is my code for these ...
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Autocorrelation of Addition of Two Independent Signals
Given a random signal $ Z \left( t \right) $ which is addition of two independent signals $ X \left( t \right) $ and $ Y \left( t \right) $ with constant parameters $ a $ and $ b $:
$$ Z (t) = aX(t) +...
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Investigating correlation for unequal signal lengths
I have measurements from two tablet sensors. The first sensor measures the touch pressure applied to the tablet and the second sensor is the acceleration of the tablet (in z direction). The sensor ...
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Convolution and cross-correlation on 2D image (Example)
I have read that convolution and cross-correlation are the same thing, but convolution flips 180 degrees (images), or time reverses (sequences) the kernel, before performing the elementwise ...
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Downsampling from 100Hz to 60 Hz
I have two sensors measuring a single time varying signal . The first sensor (reference sensor) is sampling the data at 60 Hz and the second sensor (test sensor) is sampling the data at 60 Hz. I ...
