Questions tagged [downsampling]
In signal processing, downsampling (or "subsampling") is the process of reducing the sampling rate of a signal.
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Better understanding of downsampling (decimation) and upsampling (interpolation)
Although some questions were asked about this topic, I have not seen any that answers all the basic questions, that is why I took the liberty to ask more about this.
I suggest to limit, (or at lest ...
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Polyphase components Spectrum formula in Discrete time
I am trying to understand the meaning behind some of the components of the formula for polyphase components in discrete time. Note that $\Omega$ indicates discrete in this notation and the formula is ...
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How to sketch this multirate system spectrum?
In the following system:
The signal x(n) is upsampled by 2 and then filtered. The signal and the filter have the following spectrum:
After upsampling the spectrum of X would look the same except ...
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Image downsampling with Haar DWT?
How can the resolution of an image in matlab be reduced by using 2D haar wavelet by downsampling-decimation? Is there any predefined code or tool within wavemenu? thanks in advance
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Why does downsampling stretch a signals frequency response and upsampling shrink and create images of a signals frequency response?
I am learning some basic DSP and I have a pretty good intuition as to why sampling creates spectral images of the frequency response at intervals of the sampling frequency (convolution with pulse ...
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Synchronization and downsampling after matched filtering - GNURadio polyphase clock sync
I am trying to model a QPSK transmission. For this, I am using the software GnuRadio and more specifically the block polyphase clock sync. This block performs timing synchronization for PAM signals by ...
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ADC way faster than microcontroller
I am getting into signal processing, and am working on a project.
My analog-to-digital converter has a sample rate of 10 kHz, whereas my microcontroller can only handle up to 3 kHz.
What does that ...
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Filter design for decimation of 1.1 kHz sensor sample rate to 100 Hz processing rate
Suppose, you have a signal source which is sampled by 1100 Hz and is "somehow" band limited to either 235 or 440 Hz. In my application, that's the ST IIS3DHHC accelerometer. There is an appnote for ...
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Decimation vs Mean in downsampling operation
Let's suppose I have a discrete signal $x[n]$ with a certain frequency $f_x$.
Now, due to various unimportant reason, I want to obtain a new signal $y[m]$ with a new frequency $f_y = \frac{f_x}{k}$, ...
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Aliasing from downsampling and Nyquist
In a book Conceptual Wavelets in Digital Signal Processing by Lee Fugal 2009 on page 246 the author talks about aliasing present in DWT subbands due to downsampling by 2 and states:
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Upsampling and downsampling signals as a preprocessing step for a neural network
I have audio data acquired from a 4 channels sensors array.
As a preprocessing step for a neural network, I want to beamform and focus on the sound source. For higher resolution in the beamforming ...
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Why do I have to scale filter coefficients during bandlimited sample rate conversion?
I am writing an example for how to perform sample rate conversion using windowed sinc and polyphase filters.
Here is the C++ code as a github gist.
So far, this works, and I think I have understood ...
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Down sampling an EEG signal
I have a set of 10 minute EEG signals that were sampled at 400 Hz and have 16 channels which corresponds to a 16x240000 matrix. These EEG signals belong to two different classes. I am trying to ...
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Differences in moving window rms due to sampling rate
I have a 10 second recorded signal band pass filtered from 100-500 Hz. The original sampling rate is 10 kS. Now I run a moving window RMS with a window length: 10 ms on the signal (10/1000 * sampling ...
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Understanding sampling rate conversion
I am a little bit confused about the concept of sampling rate conversion. Consider the following question:
Wideband telephony signals are sampled at a sampling frequency fS1 = 16kHz. To process these ...
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How to calculate the variance of noise when an image is downsampled?
I have a noisy image for which I know the noise variance. (Basically I created noisy image by adding noise). Now, I'm downsampling this noisy image. How does the noise variance change? Is it possible ...
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Reversing the order of up and downsampling
When we are dealing with the problem of changing the sampling rate by a noninteger factor like L/M, we first need to the do the upsampling, and then the downsampling.
My question is that under which ...
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Why is my resampled signal cutoff when resampling with a windowed FIR filter in MATLAB?
I have an exercise to write a function which upsamples or downsamples a signal by a factor of F (integer) using a FIR filter windowed with a Kaiser window function. Exercise I had last week included ...
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What are the differences between Gaussian down-sampling and bicubic down-sampling in Matlab? Which is more accurate for simulating low resolution?
I see in some of the technical papers, good practice for downsampling is to first pass the image through a Gaussian Filter and then take sampling to avoid problems like aliasing and so on.
However, ...
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Follow up question regarding: “Complex sampling can break Nyquist?”
I'm having some trouble understanding the sample rate limitations when considering a complex baseband signal.
I understand (based on the linked SE questions below), the either (1) physically ...
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Scipy resample, “fourier method” explanation
I am seeking explanation of what "Fourier method" is that is described for resampling in documentation of resample() method. I want to downsample an array. I know what decimation is and how it works, ...
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How good or bad my downsampled data is?
Suppose I have time series data at a one-minute resolution. Now I downsample data by taking mean of every 10-minute window, i.e., after downsampling, 60 readings will reduce to 6 readings. How should ...
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Why should an image be blurred using a Gaussian Kernel before downsampling?
I recently read that before downsampling an image, it should be blurred using a Gaussian Kernel. This way, the downsampled image is better than just picking a single pixel out of a NxN block or ...
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How to determine the original size of the FFT used in unknown OFDM symbol
Given an unknown OFDM symbol consisting of 9144 samples, interested to know the size of the FFT used in the TX/Number of bins.
Down-sampling to 512,256,128,64,32 yields the following.
Do not see how ...
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Convert 96 Khz to 48 Khz audio: is this simple downsampling method ok?
I have an audio signal x sampled at 96 Khz. I have already lowpassed it with a cutoff somewhere between 20 Khz and 22 Khz, so there should be nothing left of ...
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Downsampling impact on complex phase
For my application, I have to downsample a bandpass complex signal which spectrum is located on the second Nyquist zone.
Knowing that this processing will cause a spectrum inversion, what would be ...
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Properties of Up- and Downsampling
Given a gaussian white noise with mean 0 and $\sigma = 1$.
I'm interested in the PSD (power spectral density), when the signal is plain up- or downsampled. No interpolation, no filtering nothing.
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Level Correction For Digital Down-Convertion?
I am trying to understand a subtle (sorry if this is obvious) difference in the computed output power after a DDC process. Here is the story:
Suppose I generated a 10 MHz signal from a microwave ...
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How can I extract the 2 polyphase components of a signal after sampling at the half of sampling rate
Suppose I have a continuous signal x(t), which was sampled using sampling function s(t) whose sampling rate is Ts.How can I sample the continuous signal by Ts/2 instead of Ts in order to get two ...
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Are oversampling and downsampling the same thing?
According the books I have on DSP,
is oversampling, sampling a signal at a much higher samplingrate then normally required, so to reduce the sample-rate (and increase the resolution of the signal) ...
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Can we sample the signal with any period as long as the Nyquist rate is respected
I have a question regarding the sampling rate. Suppose that we transmitted a signal $m(t)$ then at receiver side, we received the continuous signal $x(t)$, which is time varying and sampled with a ...
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How can I synchronize signal from an LED and TTL pulses better?
I would like to synchronize my video and voltage data using Python.
I sent $150\text{ ms}$ long TTL pulses to a computer recording the voltage data, at the same time as to an LED in the field of view ...
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Decreasing Sample Rate in DFT (FFT) for Audio Analysis
I'm working with audio data analysis through FFT algorithm.
My example audio is a sine wave at 440 Hz and 44100 Hz sampling rate.
FFT methods in programming, like ...
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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 ...
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Downsampling in MATLAB - why scaling filter coefficients?
Trying to undertsand how MATLAB does resampling, looking at toolbox/signal/resample.m.
This is the part where (downsampling) filter coefficients are calculated:
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Most natural interpolation to simulate increasing distance?
Background: I'm generating multiple datasets with varying scales of resolution to simulate taking pictures from varying distances and then comparing image classification performances. For example ...
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Downsampling audio for use in Machine Learning
I'm trying to use the work (Neural Networks) done in this repo:
https://github.com/jtkim-kaist/VAD
It says this:
Note: To apply this toolkit to other speech data, the speech data
should be ...
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Multirate Signal processing for matching DAC of the SDR
I have been breaking my head for a long time. Please help with this..any input would be helpful!
I am trying to implement a OFDM system using SDR (USRPN210 for Transmitter and USRP2 for receiver) ...
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What is the effect of the natural logarithm in the frequency domain?
I have read that taking the natural logarithm of a signal $x$ in the time domain will introduce a spectral broadening and hence "up-sampling" process before the logarithm is required. I tried to test ...
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Downsampling a high pass filter
If I have an ideal high pass filter as the one in the picture:
And I downsample it by 2, e.g. $h_{new}[n] = h[2n]$, is my understanding correct that the resulting filter would look like this in the ...
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Python's $\tt resample$ vs $\tt resample\_poly$ vs $\tt decimate$
I have multiple signals each measured with a sampling rate 300Hz. They are mostly periodic, although there are some parts of some of the signals, that seem to be random and do not follow the rest of ...
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Explaining a statement regarding aliasing in a document
I am reading this document and in the section "Aliasing and Anti-Aliasing", the author make the following statement:
Consider a signal with two frequency components: $f_1 = 10\,\text{Hz}$ which is
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Downsampling and upsampling of a signal in Python
If I want to downsample a signal in Python, is it better to use method resample from SciPy Signal Processing module or method decimate from the same module? What is the difference between these two ...
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How left out down-sampling in 3D-DWT just on the Z direction
I am working on image processing by a 3D wavelet transform.
I have a problem with the classification size of the wavelet coefficients. As you know, when we apply 3D_DWT on the image (for example: ...
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Image zoom out using Gaussian blur and downsampling
I am trying to implement a simple zoom out algorithm using two steps:
The image is blurred using gaussian convolution of standard deviation $0.8\sqrt{{\tt zoomfactor}^2-1}$ as we saw in class.
The ...
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How does the bandlimit of an image reduce by an octave in Gaussian Pyramid procedure?
Reference paper 1. For arguments sake, let's say that the maximum and minimum frequency in an image are 256Hz and 1024Hz. When I perform filtering using the gaussian function, the "bandlimit" reduces ...
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Downsampling and convolution
(Code snippet with example below).
In MATLAB, assume I have a long signal vector y (length N) that I wish to convolve with a ...
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Down sample incoming stream of data to plot a dynamic graph
I am working on a module where I need to plot ECG streaming data on a graph. This graph has configurable speed i.e. plot 1 heartbeat data sample within say 50mm,25mm, etc. For this, I am required to ...
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Synchronizing signals with different sample rates
I am relatively new to signal processing, so I am still missing some basic knowledge, but I am trying to improve as much as I can. I am trying to synchronize two signals with matlab using cross-...
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Downsampling: Mathematical derivation
The problem I am having is related to sample rate conversion and more precise to sample rate reduction. I have been working on the paper Interpolation and Decimation of Digital Signals Tutorial Review ...
