Questions tagged [distortion]
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Finding the memory polynomial model coefficients
I want to build a memory polynomial model given that I know the corresponding output signals for known input signals.
What is the easiest way to find the coefficients of it?
And how do we take the ...
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voice timbre processing
I need a voice timbre feature for my project.
I want to produce more rough "chilled" voices, or more rounded soft voices.
To get an example of the effect needed, I use this API, with a "pitch ...
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Dithering adds harmonic distortion after filtering and upsampling
I have an issue which I wasn't able to solve for a few days. I have implemented a polyphase FIR interpolation filter within an FPGA which does interpolate by a factor of 8 or 16 times. I do accept an ...
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Why is distorted / quantized white noise still white noise?
White noise can be created by setting every sample in the time domain to a random number with a gaussian distribution. Every sample is random, so the frequency response is obviously random. Easy ...
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Identify the Type of Image Distortion (On Lena Image)
I want to understand the distortions in each of the lena images shown in the image below.
I see that the first one is a blur. How can undo the blur. The second one is colored salt and pepper noise. ...
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THD requirement for generated sine
I need to generate a sine signal using a DAC with a certain THD specification, say 0.1% @ 1KHz. As a first approach I’m considering it to be an ideal DAC along with an ideal LPF for aliasing removal ...
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Optimal Channel Bit Allocation For Branches
The Question
Hi.
I was asked to solve this problem.
I solved the part a but could not be able to solve the b part.
Also found that
$(\frac{2(1+p)^2}{(1+p)(1-p)})^2 = \frac{{{\sigma_\theta}_1}^2}{{...
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I/Q imbalance correction with multi-tone system
I'm trying to compensate I/Q imbalance from a system that uses multiple tones. I've tried to use Analog Devices' approach, https://wiki.analog.com/resources/eval/user-guides/ad-fmcomms1-ebz/...
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Redistributing Color in a RGB Image According to a Gaussian Distribution
I haven't done this stuff in a while.
If I have an image $I$ I can equalize the histogram of the image using some opencv procedure, it's already defined. Equalizing an histogram means essentially to ...
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temporal smoothing and signal distortion
I compare two signals (blue and red). Each signal is an average of many observations (shades are standard error of mean). I need to show that the the blue signal is significantly above red one at the ...
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Linear distortions in transmission systems [duplicate]
I am quite new in Signal Processing and I do not know even the basics. In my lecture slide notes, I came across with the following sentence:
Phase distortions happen if the phase function b(f) of ...
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How to calculate THD+N from signal
Currently writing a program to measure the distortion of audio receiving signals(FM signal). I am studying audio's signal distortion analysis. I have survey THD+N's knowledge on the Internet. But they ...
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Can someone explain waveshaping to me?
Can someone explain waveshaping to me?
I only know it shapes waveshapes by passing through some functions, but I don't yet understand e.g. what the plots (such as the following in Melda Production ...
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Calculating Transfer Functions From Harmonic Distortion Percentage
Hi I am working on emulating a piece of analog audio equipment and would like to be able to create a transfer function based on the measured percentages of harmonic distortion.
I know that harmonic ...
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Wave Shaper Function From A Waveshaped Singal
Is there a way to work out an unknown waveshaper function, that was used to distort and map the values of an input signal to new output signal, form the output if we only have input signal and the ...
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Norm MPEG-1 Layer III (Mp3) Filter banks distortion
So, I'm working with the filter banks used in Mp3, in Matlab. I am obtaining quite a huge distortion in the output and I don't really know whether I'm making something wrong.
I've reviewed the ...
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Digital modelling of circuits with diode (i.e. guitar distortion)
For the last few days I was struggling to come up with an idea how to model a guitar overdrive effect which works in realtime. One of the simplest circuit diagrams that produce it looks as follows:
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Spectral baseline distortion simulation - Bruker smile
I work with Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy data. Data (complex signals) obtained from Bruker scanners (one of the biggest manufacturers of MRS scanners) start with an important group delay - around ...
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Demodulation distortion in single-sideband and double-sideband
I am trying to compare the demodulation for single sideband (SSB) and dual sideband modulation formats (DSB) when the reconstructed carrier is not perfect (i.e. shifted in both frequency and phase). I ...
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Regarding the advantages of generalized linear phase filters
I know that for a linear-phase filter with frequency response given by
$$H(e^{j\omega}) = |H(e^{j\omega})|e^{j\phi(\omega)} $$
if the input of the system is
$$x[n] = s[n]\cos[\omega_0 n] $$
where $s[...
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Can IR emitter signal be distorted by curved glass housing around receiver?
I have built a garage door opening circuit that includes an IR sensor and an IR emitter (a remote control). When the IR sensor is in the open air it works fine.
If I put the sensor inside a glass ...
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Create distortion from basic linear (and non-linear if neccessary) DSP elements
I'm studying mechatronics and I'm intrested in DSP basics. My lecturer said that there are four basic linear DSP elements:
Adder (and other mathematical operations)
Amplification (shown on diagrams ...
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If a filter has a non-linear phase lag will the output signal be distorted?
EDIT: From here (https://www.mathworks.com/help/signal/ref/butter.html)
it appears that an Butterworth filter has a non-linear phase lag at the normalized frequency of 0.5 onwards.
Does that mean that ...
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How to calculate THD+$N$ of a wav audio file?
I have sine tone of $F_s= 192\textrm{ kHz}$ which contains frequency from $20$ to $20\textrm{ kHz}$. I have converted that to $44\textrm{ kHz}$ sampling rate.
I am supposed to calculate THD+N value ...
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Determine modulation function from spectrum?
I have a two periodic signals $x(t)$ and $y(t)$ which are related to each other by a periodic modulation function $\alpha(t)$:
$$y(t) = \alpha(t) x(t)$$
If $x(t)$ is a sinusoid, is it possible to ...
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How to analyze image quality?
I have a few sequences of images, taken at fixed camera position, that address a moving object, which means the object moves towards the camera. But all the sequences of images are the cropped images ...
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What is this kind of distortion called?
Today while watching a movie I noticed the following distortion:
Note. The red ring is me painting over to show the area of interest.
There are certain areas in which I can see non-smooth shades of ...
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How to estimate THD?
I have a signal source that I can digitise and read. It produces mainly a 50Hz sine wave, but there is distortion as well. I'd like to estimate the total harmonic distortion for this signal. I've ...
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how to get an input test signal for convolution/ distortion method
i am trying to do some experiments with Total Harmonic Distortion.
According to ...
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STFT on audio signal
I am trying to implement a STFT on audio signal as an exercise, and in order to do real-time filtering if I can get the "sound->STFT->inverseSTFT->reconstructed sound" chain to work.
What I do for ...
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FFT Convolution: missing sample somewhere
For a piece of software I've been working on lately I need to implement FFT convolution for performance reasons.
Doing so has been mildly succesfull but there is still a error somewhere causing lots ...
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Quantitative comparison of scaled-, delayed- and warped-signals
The following question is detailed in 1D, with time as the ordinal variable. Similar questions could apply in other dimensions.
In several signal processing techniques, such as blind source ...
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Vinyl Crackling Effect
I want to know how can I achieve this effect:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQg9M_47c3A
Do I need to use a filter? And what can I use for the crackling, poping effect?
Thanks in advance!
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Distances In a Single Image With Some Real References
Consider following image:
We have some real references here: Stonehenge measurements (stone dimensions and distances), some strait lines at the back of carts, cart wheels that are almost of the same ...
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How to estimate radial distortion from lens characteristics?
Is there a way to estimate the radial distortion coefficients without calibration, given the lens characteristics, such as its diameter and its focal length?
Typically for camera calibration a ...
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Slight crackle with overlap-add frequency-domain convolution
I'm trying to make an FFT audio filter using overlap-add but there's some slight rhythmic distortion/crackle in the output. I have an irSize (impulse response size) of 512 samples and a blockSize of ...
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Can sample aliasing of strictly white noise lead to random walk (drift) in the sampled signal?
Aliasing of tones higher than the Nyquist frequency, and where the tone may have some degree of nonlinear distortion can appear as low frequency 'drift' or even near static bias in the sampled signal.
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What is done to minimize distortion due to the hold operation?
A hold operation can be modeled using a step function over one sampling period i.e.
$R(t) = 1/T * (h(t) - h(t-T))$, $h(t)$ the step function
In frequency domain this is equivalent to
$R(jw) = e^{-...
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Total Harmonic Distortion calculation and its origins
I ve been researching about harmonic distortion and THD. From what i ve seen on the internet, HD is caused by non-linear signal processing. I want to calculate it using an digital signal processor. ...
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FFT window corrupts signal
this is a newbie question.
My goal is to create audio filter that cleans human speech from noise. I started with learning all about fft filters. At first I've created simple fft filter with ...
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Why does my overlap-add integrator in frequency domain result in distorted signals?
With help from the dsp guide and DSP-Related, I tried to implement a leaky integrator in octave/matlab. It seems to work in general, but there are a few problems.
So that's what I do:
Calculate the ...
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How to model Tape Saturation (Audio DSP)?
I'm looking for info that would help me to build a Tape Saturation process.
I'm working with the WebAudio API. The API provides a number of DSP nodes that perform basic processes, such as a Convolver ...
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Camera Calibration using Single Input Image
Given a camera, permanently located at the same position, angle and distance from what is being captured, and a single calibration image ( a row of vertical lines [ | | | | ] ), how would one go about ...
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Motion and Distortion Estimation using multiple still images?
TL/DR: I'd like to take the median of lots of images to make a single "better" image. The problem is, the camera is slowly moving, and there is significant lens distortion. On the plus side the ...
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Digital Distortion effect algorithm
I read the DAFX book by Udo Zölzer about the distortion effect at pages 124-125
and it says that suitable simulation of the distortion is given by the function:
$$f(x)=\frac{x}{|x|}\left(1-e^{x^2/|x|}...
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importance of symmetric windows for STFT for practical applications
I am wondering why is the linear phase property of filters with symmetric coefficients important for some practical applications of short time fourier transform, such as image processing? I have read ...
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How to calculate Noise and distortion of an image?
I need to make an application in iphone which needs to calculate noise, geometric deformation other distortions in an image. How to do this? I have done some image processing stuff with opencv + ...
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Add odd/even harmonics to signal?
How do I add odd or even harmonics to a floating point signal?
Do I have to use tanh or sin?
What I'm trying to do is achieve some very simple distortion effects, but I'm having a hard time finding ...
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Algorithm(s) to mix audio signals without clipping
I'd like to mix two or more PCM audio channels (eg recorded samples) digitally in an acoustically-faithful manner, preferably in near-real-time (meaning little or no peek-ahead).
The physically "...
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Is there such a thing as band-limited non-linear distortion?
So if you generate a square wave by just switching a signal between two values, at sample boundaries, it produces an infinite series of harmonics, which alias and produce tones below your fundamental, ...
