Questions tagged [cross-correlation]
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Matlab normxcorr for 1D signals
I am very surprised not to find a version of normxcorr2 for 1D signals in Matlab ! I implemented something like that by hand (with 2 for loops, and normalizing the template as well as the window under ...
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Simulink cross correlation issue
here is the Simulink model that i'm using :
The matlab function script :
function tau = fcn(sig,refsig)
tau = gccphat(sig,refsig);
The errors :
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Synchronising audio in realtime without knowledge of original signal
Was doubting whether this is the right SE forum to ask my (elaborate) question, so don’t hesitate to let me know if it’s not. Also, if anyone knows of a better way to title the question, feel free to ...
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How to reliably compute the group delay of a comb filter
I applied the following FIR comb filter in real-time:
y[n]=x[n]-x[n-40]
Since this is an FIR, the group delay is D=(N-1)/2=20 samples. After applying the filter ...
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Cross-correlation, spreading out the error
I'm looking for a method to determine the most likely offset of a measured 1-dimensional signal to a reference signal. The reference signal does not need to be generalized and always has a similar ...
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Signal similarity analysis after cross correlation
I have a time series signal and using this as reference, from the main data set extracted possible matching sections using cross correlation technique.(xcorr matlab).Based on with the threshold xcorr ...
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How to Determine Phase Difference and Time delay between two wavepackets using cross correlation method through MATLAB?
I have 2 wavepackets with different Displacement Vs. Time values. I need to find the Time Delay and Optimum Phase difference(i.e the phase angle when the correlation coefficient with Time Delay is the ...
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Deriving the Langrangian interpolation polynomials in Cook-Toom convolutions
I'm working through Blahut's 'Fast Algorithms for Signal Processing'. Trying to develop an intuition for the Cook-Toom algorithm for convolutions as used by Lavin and Gray in their Winograd paper for ...
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GCC-PHAT for Multiple Sound Sources
Can GCC-PHAT be used to detect multiple time-delays (that is, having multiple acoustic sources simultaneously)? The documentation for the gccphat(sig,refsig) ...
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Pearson correlation coefficient vs mutual information
I recently computed both the pearson coefficient and the mutual information of two time series as well as the corresponding error bars, and what I find out in the end is a significant level of ...
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Cross correlation to compute delay between two lines does not work
I have zero experience with signal processing, and I am stuck in what I believe to be a very simple problem.
I am trying to use the xcorr in matlab to find delay between two signals.
The signals are ...
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Reduce noise of sensor by combining two
I've had the basics of signal in university but little real-life practice. I've got an acceleration sensor with a digital output signal (signed 16 bit value). This signal is a little noisy. The ...
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Discrete Time Fourier Transform (DTFT) cross correlation property
I came across this property of the Discrete Time Fourier Transform (DTFT) and I am having a tough time proving it.
In general, consider two real signals $x[n] \: \& \: y[n]$. If
$$ x[n] \...
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Is maximizing hamming distance the same as minimizing correlation?
For the design of an error correcting code, I might wish to maximize the distance between the codewords $\sum a_i \oplus b_i$.
For spreading sequences I'd like to minimize the cross-correlation at $t=...
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Decorrelation for Adaptive Feedback Cancellation: How does it work?
I am going through lecture slides on adaptive feedback cancellation right now, and several decorrelation measures are mentioned.
As I understand, these are important in order to avoid a bias in filter ...
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Measure How Much Pattern Is Present In Signal
I have some pattern signal. This pattern signal will be played in noisy room. Then it will be recorded and processed. I need to show that my processing algorithm improves the signal.
My idea is to ...
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Strong (0,0) pixel among an otherwise normal cross correlation peak
I am working on an imagery registration problem via cross-correlation and am seeing a weird phenomena sometimes. First, I am pre-processing each image by subtracting the mean image brightness from ...
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Phase lag changes cross spectrum
I have a same noise passing through two different ARMA filter. The autospectrum of first filter is given by S11=G1*G1*S_in where S_in is input spectrum created by set of random numbers.
Similarly the ...
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How to compare and measure the similarity between two between two signals?
I'm working on different sensors data, the question is this: I have two signals (coming from two different sensors measuring two different phisical charactheristcs of the same "object").
I know for a ...
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Why the spectral coherence is unity for all frequencies between single-frequency time series and itself
In the example below, I am plotting the coherence between time series and itself. The time series do has one frequency.The coherence magnitude was one for all frequencies. I wonder why it is not zero ...
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Cross-correlation of filtered random processes
I have a wide-sense-stationary (WSS) process $\{x(t)\}$ and two linear filters with impulse functions $h_1$ and $h_2$.
Let $\delta(\omega)$ be the power spectrum of $\{x(t)\}$ and $$H_1:\omega\...
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Detecting multi-path propagation when one acoustic signal is dominant
I am sending an acoustic signal from a source to a receiver where there are limited number of paths the signal can travel. I want to detect if there has been multipath propagation or not when one path ...
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Faster Algorithm to convolve/correlate two sparse 1-D signals in python (or any language)
I have two signals which I need to correlate or convolve. Each signal is sampled non-uniformly and the values of the signal I have with me are the timestamp and the magnitude of the signal at that ...
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Wrong estimate of lag by xcorr between a signal and its segmented identical copy in Matlab
In general I have a series of signals that each following is a bit stretched version of the previous. To find the incremental stretching, I crop the original signal into some number of short segments ...
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match a pattern in a stream of bits
I feel my question is somewhat related to this, but I'm not sure how to do what I want.
I get transmissions of ~1000 bits at a time, which may be corrupted by noise.
To try and infer data from ...
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Obtain points in signals which cause correlation
I've got two large .wav files (tens or hundreds of minutes each). I know that at some points these files contain very similar areas - actually, these areas are the ...
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Correlation between frequency and initial phase estimates using FFT
Why is there a high negative correlation between frequency estimation errors and initial phase estimation errors when measured using FFT?
I have a simple code showing this negative correlation.
is ...
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Finding recorded sub-signal in the original audio signal
I have the original record of a song, and some fragment of the same song recorded by a microphone. I need to find the time where the fragment is appearing in the original.
I have tried to use cross-...
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How to group similar patterns together that are shifted along the x axis?
I have a set of time series plots that are shifted along the x-axis. I am looking for an algorithm using which I can group them together. My end goal is to average them.
While reviewing the ...
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Correlation of independent random processes
Suppose $X(t)$ and $Y(t)$ be two independent random processes. Is $E(X(t_1)Y(t_2))$ necessarily zero?
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cpsd calculation help
I have several channels from where I am reading sensor signals in time domain.
I have 9 channels where I am reading time domain signals from each and every channel for 10 seconds.
Now if I perform ...
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Maximum cross-correlation coefficient value for time delay estimation
I am using cross-correlation for time delay estimation of two synchronized recordings ($x_1$ and $x_2$) of a fixed sound source from two different locations.
I understand that the delay is associated ...
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Cross Correlation as Noise Reduction, is this possible?
If I have two sensor measuring the same signal but from two different locations from the source, and I get two different readings of the signal, each with slightly different noise.
Is there a way to ...
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Cross Correlation dimensions
I have been trying to do the cross correlation of two signals, and I am expecting the output to have the same dimensions as the two signals have. However what I am seeing is that the cross correlation ...
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DOA estimation of moving, radiating source in the near-field with nonuniform Doppler shifting
I am trying to estimate the DOA of a radiating source using two passive sensors.
In the case of a stationary source, I find the lag $k$ of the maximum in the sample cross-covariance sequence $E \...
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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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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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