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Questions tagged [filtering]

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Comparisons of FIR Causal filters of type HRIR in Discrete Time and Frequency Domains

I have just implemented a Discrete Time Convolution between HRIR filter at a range of angles. I also implemented an Overlalp-and-Add method and FFT and IFFT to compute the same convolution in ...
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What is the difference between domain and range filtering?

In the context of image processing, I have heard the expressions "domain filtering" and "range filtering". What do these terms refer to? What is the difference between them?
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Causal unstable system turn into stable anticausal?

I would appreciate it very much if someone would be able to provide some clarity, help or comment on this problem. I have been reading several papers on time series identification such as https://www....
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What is used to initialise difference equations that require data from the output?

Given some difference equation for a filter like $y[k] = ax[k] + bx[k-1]+ cy[k-1]$, how would you initialize it? Since it needs an old output value (feedback) to calculate the new output value, it ...
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Noise Reduction: How can I filter out saw or other tool noises?

I recently came across old recording from the 1930's. Unfortunately not only is the quality low, it's a bunch of carpenters talking as they saw things and make all sorts of other noises. I've tried: ...
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Looking for a analytical formula to compute the central frequency of a signal analyzed by a discrete wavelet at a given scale

I am reading this paper by Han et al. (2014). In this article, the authors extract detailed information from geomagnetic data sampled at 1Hz using a daubechies 5 (db5) wavelet: they reconstruct the ...
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How do I find the frequency of a particular bin in a cosine transform, and two other questions

I have a discrete series of values and I have applied a Discrete Cosine Transform to it, obtaining values like: ...
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How the zero - phase filter without filtered signal truncation at the end can be implemented?

I mean what for the window FIR filter the filtered signal is truncated at the end because impulse response of the filter is symmetric. For example the code from here (in python) (lowpass FIR filter) ...
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What type of low-pass filter to use for gyroscope filtering in control application?

I am using a gyroscope to generate a feedback signal that drives a motor to resist rotation, just as in a camera gimbal. The gyroscope is sampling at 32 KHz with a bandwidth of 8 KHz, and my control ...
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Applying a filter on an input sequence in matlab

Given a input sequence $x = {x_1, ... x_n}$ and a filter with l elements $h = [h_1, ..., h_l]$ with l < n. We want to filter the input sequence with the specified filter. My first thought was to ...
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How to filter my noisy square wave so that i can recover my signal using the Chebyshev Filter

I have a noisy square signal as input but it has a lot of noise. I should use a Bandpass filter to recover my signal. I know that the Chebyshev Filter is a bandpass filter; but it doesn't work. the ...
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how to do supervised NMF source separation?

I know how NMF works by itself (unsupervised), but I am now interested in learning how it works in the supervised way. Suppose I have a clean isolated time domain signal of about 3 seconds in length ...
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What is zero-phase filtering and forward-backward filtering?

I am pretty familiar with IIR and FIR filtering and I have implemented them in my several projects. However, recently i found something called zero phase filtering. I have tried to understand it but ...
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Applying window function to reduce out of band emission for a symbol in LTE simulation?

I have to apply a window to an IFFT'ed signal (based on LTE standards, simulated for 1 symbol - 100 resource blocks - 1200 subcarriers). I have a signal which I have simulated till the IFFT. Now I ...
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filter multiple sources from each other

I am trying to supply a solution for recording a court room and then, use some smart algorithms in order to automatically convert the speech to text. In order to do that I have three boom microphones,...
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How to calculate the Fourier transform of a mean filter in Matlab?

In Matlab, how can I calculate the discrete-space Fourier transform of a mean which takes the average of 4 adjacent points, with this kernel $$\begin{pmatrix} 0 &1& 0\\ 1 &0&...
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Using a Passive 1st Order RC filter to Extract DC Component

I am trying to extract the DC component out of a PWM signal produced by the MCU using a LPF. I understand that 1st order RC filter is looked upon as being amateurish because the gain in the passband ...
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ARMA & MA methods: how do you know the error terms?

Reading the ARMA model for the first time, and I'm confused. Let's say I have a time series x = [1, 2.1, 2.9, 3, 4.1] According to the ARMA model, $X_t$ is a ...
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How to remove ECG artifacts from EMG data?

I'm new to signal processing and try to analyze EMG data from pectoralis major and other respiratory muscles. Unfortunately, there are strong ECG artifacts in all recordings and I don't know how to ...
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Manual filter or digital filter first for EEG?

I am getting conflicting advise regarding how to clean my EEG data: 1) Manually remove artefacts first and then apply digital filters OR 2) Apply digital filters first and then manually remove ...
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How to Classify Image Filter as Low Pass Filter (LPF) or High Pass Filter (HPF)?

I am currently reading on the topics of image filtering and convolution kernels. While the process of convolution is clear to me, I do not understand, how one arrives at the statement, that a certain ...
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What are the advantages and disadvantages separability of Gaussian 2D filter?

I know separability of a Gaussian filter enhances the computational complexity from $\mathcal{O}(L^2*N*M) \to \mathcal{O}((L*N*M)$. How this really reflect on my program? I suppose the number of for ...
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Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) for Non Linear (Coordinate Conversion - Polar to Cartesian) Measurements and Linear Predictions

I'm new to Kalman filtering and state estimation and I'd like some guidance on EKFs. Currently, I'm trying to use a linear prediction model coupled with nonlinear measurements to estimate the state ...
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How to properly filter an image in the frequency domain using matlab

my problem is the next: I´m starting to understand the world of image processing and I´ve been kind of bugged with the idea of filtering images in frequency domain. I have made a test programm in ...
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What do poles do for a filter?

What are the disadvantages of having too many poles? Thanks.
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When applying a bandpass filter designed in Matlab's DSP system toolbox, is it necessary to do any normalization?

I'm applying the next bandpass filter to the data of an impulse response coming from .wav; it fades data below 10 Hz and above 400 Hz: ...
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filtering 1D signal with very low SNR(<2)

I have recorded speech using a microphone(with 16bit A/D converter). The signal has a frequency range of 300Hz to 1000Hz, I have recorded 3.5 seconds of the speech and 1.5 seconds of the baseline(no ...
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How to filter a sequence of frames?

I'm have a sequence of 2-dimensional MxN frames. I have concatenated these frames to form a 3-dimensional MxNxT matrix. Now i want to filter this 3D volume by 2 types of filters (a 2D log-Gabor in xy-...
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Implementing FIR/IIR “alike” filter in R

I am new to signal processing. I am trying to simulate something similar to IIR/FIR filter with $k$ delays to imitate acoustic echo reflection. The difference equations for FIR and IIR respectively ...
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How to use Kalman filter for altitude prediction based on barometer data?

I have barometer noisy data with known variance. I studied Kalman filter but I did not find an answer to this problem: My process model is: altitude is changed because of velocity that is changed ...
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Do integration/differentiation processes work as simple filters?

How these processes are different from simple IIR 1 order filtering, FIR filters in terms of amplitude and phase characteristics?
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Impulse response of ideal filters

I am aware that an ideal low-pass filter in both continuous time and discrete time has a $\mathrm{sinc}$ impulse response. What would the impulse response of an ideal high-pass or band-pass filter ...
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BIBO Stability and the convergence of the frequency response of a system

It is my understanding that an LTI system is BIBO stable if and only if its impulse response $h(t)$ is absolutely integrable. This also happens to be one of the Dirichlet conditions for the ...
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Bandpass filtering IQ samples from USRP

I have an USRP (B205mini) with an RX frequency of 900 MHz and a bandwidth of 100 MHz. I want to distinguish between two raw, unmodulated signals at respectively 875 and 925 MHz. My approach would be ...
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Use samples of Fourier transform as DFT?

Consider the LTI system given by: $H(z) = 1 - \frac{1}{2}z^{-1}+\frac{3}{4}z^{-2}$ Let $x[n] = (\frac{1}{2})^nu[n]$ be the input to the system. We want to find the output for $n = 0,1,...,N_a$, using ...
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Apply butterworth filter (lowpass) to a signal

I'm working on a DSP lab and I can't figure out how to apply the filter I've created to a sound. The only thing I found online that did something to my sound was ...
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What is the difference between the sampling frequency of signal and sampling frequency of filter

I believe that there is no connection between the sampling frequency used for converting an analogue filter to digital filter and the one used to sample a signal that the filter will be used on. But I ...
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Extracting the carrier signal from AM

I am new to DSP and leaning about amplitude modulation. I am trying to demodulate a 5 Hz signal that is modulated by a 50 Hz carrier. I am trying to extract the carrier, not the the 5 Hz signal. A ...
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Real-time oscillation-like noise filtering

I am making real-time measurements, which are affected by some noise. This noise has oscillating pattern, i.e. the total signal tends to oscillate around the mean value. The examples of measurements ...
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Use of an impulse-response system to model sediment transport along a river reach

I am new to signal processing and have come into the subject from the study of rivers and basic geophysics. I am trying to test an idea previously put forward that the sediment transport response of ...
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How to eliminate negative frequencies from IQ signal

I have a 192kHz IQ signal from an RF receiver, and i'm trying to remove signals in the negative (or positive) frequency spectrum. I see that the negative frequency signals are -90 degrees phase ...
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Remove high resolution spurious peaks from sinusoidal signal

I have the current from a LEM transducer measured. The measurement is taken on the output of a transformer. The signal is a 50 Hz signal, measured at 100kHz. When the demand of the system is increased ...
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Processing digital sound in Audiokit to sound like the 1960's

I am looking to imitate 70's analog equipments sound. I was wondering is there a way to create tape saturation / distortion inside Audiokit? I want to add that and randomized tape crackles and ...
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Pre-emphasis filter for speech recognition

I'm trying to design a: $$H(z)=1 - 0.95z$$ FIR filter, for speech signal. I am using this arm_fir_example_f32.c code shown below. And I need to change the filter ...
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Adaptive Facial blurring

I got one problem related to facial blurring. The problem is Input: Image with facial (can be any location, not aligned, multiple faces) Know the bounding box: ellipse bounding box I would like ...
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Polyphase Filter decomposition. It is not working

So, I want to do a polyphase implementation of a filter bank (I had problems with it since the beginning and I already asked for help to the community in the past, indeed: Norm MPEG-1 Layer III (Mp3) ...
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Convolution in spatial domain is multiplication in frequency domain

I have to prove convolution in spatial domain = multiplication in frequency domain using two matrices. $$ x(m, n) = \begin{bmatrix} 1 && 2 \\ 3 && 4 \end{bmatrix} $$ $$ h(m, n) = \...
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Filtering without using any transforms

A composite signal is defined as $$x(t) = \sin(2\pi 10t) + \sin(2\pi 40t) + \sin(2\pi 60t) + \sin(2\pi 50t)$$ Separate the four frequencies without using any of the transform techniques.
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Implementation of the filter function (Matlab) C/C++

I am trying to apply some filtering in C/C++ code, I have designed an algorithm using Matlab and it works well, so now I am moving it to native code. I am ...
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Recommendation for studying filters

I have a project to do about what happens to a periodic function when we pass it through a low-pass, high-pass and band-pass filter. I have no expressions for the filters or the function, I just have ...

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