Questions tagged [lowpass-filter]
A low-pass filter is an electronic filter that passes low-frequency signals but attenuates signals with frequencies higher than the cutoff frequency.
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First Order Butterworth filter has low frequency noise and only cuts off about 13db/decade
I designed a low pass Butterworth filter like so
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How to filter out noise in high frequency signal?
I am trying to filter this signal (download-zip):
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Does separation of variables of a transfer function followed by a z-domain transform work?
I tried taking a low pass filter transfer function in the form $A/(s^2+Bs+C)$ and separating it into multiple fractions over each root $(D/(s+r1))+(E/(s+r2))$.
Then I substituted $s =((2/T)*((z-1)/(z+...
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Filtering on time or frequency domain?
I'm applying an ideal filter on the frequency domain. My code below:
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Low pass filter output showing instability
I am fairly new to DSP, and I'm trying to implement the Pan Tompkins algorithm for QRS detection of ECG signals in MATLAB. The first stage of the algorithm consists of a second-order low-pass filter. ...
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IIR Direct FormII Filter second order in VHDL, false output
I am trying to implement an IIR second order in Direct FormII in VHDL. To make it easier to understand for me and to avoid former timing issues, I implemented the operations sequentially. In my ...
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LP to BP transformation steps
Considering the following problem, What i know to convert from LP signal to BP signal is to:
Draw the FD of the LP equation
From it I can draw the FD for BP
From this graph I can deduce the equation ...
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First order low pass filter
I am trying to better understand the first-order low pass filter:
Summary:
Per wikipedia, a first order low pass filter yields the following in discrete time:
$$
\frac{Y(s)}{U(s)}= \frac{\omega_{c}}...
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Low-Pass Filtering on Small Chunks of Audio
I've got a script (Python) that chops 44.1 kHz realtime audio into 10 ms chunks, processes each chunk, and stitches the chunks back together with no added artifacts. I'm trying to create a low-pass ...
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How to design a filter with smoothness regularisation?
I am rather new to the DSP topic. However, I would like to filter a signal with lowest error and highest smoothness.
Until now, I was using tikhonov regularisation inside batch regression with some ...
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Stability of the Low pass filter after Spectral Transformation
Using a spectral transformation a filter $G(z^{cap})$ is
designed to be a low pass filter from an existing lowpass filter $G_{lp}(z)$ via $G(z^{cap}) = G(z)z=H(z^{cap})$
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Can Kaiser's formula be used to estimate the filter length of an FIR filter for all windowing methods?
I came across this problem while designing a FIR filter for given $\omega_p = 0.4\pi$ and $\omega_s = 0.6\pi$ along with the minimum stop-band attenuation $\delta_s$.
I have worked out some examples ...
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How Butterworth low-pass filter can be applied on a digital signal (i.e. discrete representation of a signal)?
I would like to know how to apply a low pass filter (Butterworth) to a digital signal. So, I have some values of the signal, let's say $S(t)$. Those values are equally spaced in time. I have read the ...
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Understanding audio downsampling code (JavaScript) and adapting to a different ratio
I inherited responsibility for some audio downsampling code that I don't fully understand:
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Closed loop detection system
I am trying to design a detector of the DC component of a signal (low pass filter). I found the following topology (called Closed Loop Detection System) in an article (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/...
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Manually creating a lowpass filter from the frequency domain: what phase?
In an attempt to gain a better understanding of DSP, I want to create a very simple (1D) lowpass, or I think more correctly "stop-band" or "band-reject" filter, to filter out a single frequency, e.g., ...
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Design of low pass filter
I'm designing a low pass filter to identify the DC content of a signal. The most important aspects of my application are the accuracy and the speed of the identification.
I would like to know if the ...
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Low-Pass Filtering of not evenly sampled signal
I have a signal sampled unevenly over 1 million ns.
the signal is sampled over 1GHZ clock and the samples are as the following:
0-100 ns - sample every 1 ns.
100-1000 ns - sample every 10 ns.
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Why does sampling frequency affect the filter results?
I have a big issue, basically my goal is to create a low-pass butterworth filter around 0-35Hz with a sampling frequency of 5000Hz.
My Matlab code is
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Consider an ideal low pass filter $H(\omega)$, and the input to this filter is the periodic square wave $x(t)$. Find the output $y(t)$
The solution to the problem is $$y(t) = 5 + \frac{20}{\pi} \sin(\pi t) + \frac{20}{3\pi} \sin(3 \pi t) $$ and to get that the solution says to find the Fourier series expansion of $x(t)$ and I am ...
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Unable to low pass filter the signal
I am trying to use a basic example of a low pass filter as shown in the example:
https://de.mathworks.com/help/signal/ref/lowpass.html
However, I change the frequency:
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Side Lobes in the Magnitude Response of a Low Pass FIR Filter
I have the impulse response (from the filter coefficients) of an FIR filter obtained from MATLAB's "interp" function using the command:
[y, b] = interp(x, 5); % where b contains the interpolation ...
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Polyphase resampling delay
I want to implement polyphase resampling.
For this, I wrote a script in matlab.
The script performs the following sequence of actions:
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Reverse engineering a digital filter
I have 2 simultaneous signals that both are designed to measure eye movements.
They are sampled at 250 Hz.
We have 12 subject recordings.
For 3 stable periods in each subject, we choose 256 points and ...
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How to design a lowpass filter using Hamming window and sinc function
I have these three equations and have a noisy voice signal. I have to design a low pass filter of length N=1000 using hamming window technique. I have selected its cutoff frequecny 0.25 (normalized).
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python rewrite lfilter (iir) with for
It's a beginner question, but useful to users from python - signal.lfilter, I was using lfilter from
Find reverse one pole ...
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Old style signal processing?
I am wondering if "an array of overlapping band-pass filters" it is 'mostly' equivalent to a Short-Time Fourier transform. See this (figure down), where $s(t)$ is the signal;
LPF a second-order low-...
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What is the name of this digital low pass filter?
I found this digital filter in code I am working on. It is a low pass filter. In the code it is called an "alpha filter", but it is not the same as the alpha filter mentioned here.
I post the ...
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Apply Low pass Butterworth filter in Python
I want to use a low pass Butterworth filter on my data but on applying the filter I don't get the intended signal. Here is the dummy code:
Signal A:
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analog-to-discrete-to-analog system sampling problem
This is not a homework problem, I am solving practice problems for my exam.
Consider the analog-to-discrete-to-analog system shown in figure 1. The CT signal $x_a(t)$
is sampled at a frequency of $...
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What impact have different types of border-handling on high pass or low pass filtering?
When high or low pass filters are being applied to an (grayscale) image, the borders need to be handled separately. They could be filled with 0's or 255's (b/w), repeat the nearest pixel value, or ...
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low-pass filter and the sharp cut-off filter
are the low-pass filter and the sharp cut-off filter the same thing??
Here there is the definition of sharp cut-off filter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_(large_eddy_simulation) .
I tried to ...
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Low-Pass FIR that keeps all values positive
Let's say, that I want to low-pass the norm (hence positive values) of an analytic signal (related to Hilbert transform). This allows me to perform experiments with the envelope of audio.
For low-...
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Filtered signal does not follow my cut off frequency
I filtered my signal with low pass filter butterworth forth order with cutoff frequency of 50 hz. However when I compare the filtered signal with original one in frequency domain, it seems that the ...
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Low-pass filter with varying cut-off frequency over time
Is there a novel way to create a low-pass filter (Finite Impulse Response Filter) with varying cut off frequency over time?
For example, I have a white noise that is 10 seconds long sampled at 44.1 ...
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Quadrature demodulator. Relationship of sampling rate and error
Task: to estimate the frequency of the power grid signal.
I use a quadrature demodulator. I get the I / Q components. I calculate the angle (phi = atan(Q / I)). I differentiate the angle and get the ...
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Difference Between Equiripple & Least Squares Design for FIR Digital Filters
For an efficient and optimized digital FIR filter design, there are two methods available broadly, Equiripple filter design & Least Squares filter design. A general method for designing a filter ...
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How to Actually Use FFT to Implement Low Pass Filter
have searched high and low for a practical guide to implement a simple 50Hz low pass filter on a signal.I understand the theory but its the practical but that's missing. If I was using MATLAB it would ...
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What Techniques Are Used for Signal / Image Denoising (Example Image Provided)?
I have an image that looks like this (it might appear low res in a browser because it is 16 MB). This image was taken with a scanning electron microscope, but because the equipment is outdated there ...
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2D Digital Signal Processing - Applying High Pass on and Image
I have been doing my research on 2D digital signal processing. What I am doing is about noise removal of digital image:
Type of noise that I want to remove from an images is like the Gaussian noise ...
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Filter for Reducing Background Noise in Image
I have images where there is a lot of "black" background (few shades of black). (In many images at least half the pixels are background). I need to get interest points from the image, but because the ...
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Differentiating high frequencies if a signal
I have a power signal (in dBm) which contains lots of peaks (around -80 dBm) and most of the time is around -110 dBm which we can call it noise level (obviously with fluctuations). As you know, both ...
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Lowpass Lanczos filter
I am new to Lanczos filters and trying to figure out how they can be used to generate a zero-phase lowpass filter with good time-domain properties.
This example shows how to implement such a filter in ...
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How to draw the magnitude plot of a variable slope low/high pass shelving filter? (eg. as a function of cascaded shelving filters)
I am interested in making a magnitude graph of a variable slope low/high pass filter. I would like to set slope in dB/oct and a cutoff pitch. The y-axis should be amplitude from 0 to 1, and the x-axis ...
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Amplitude demodulation of sinusidal signal in matlab
AM-demodulation task and I was asked to demodulate the signal in MATLAB and the result should contain three pictures.
plotting the $fft$ the (frequency spectrum)of the signal i was able to determine ...
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2-d circularly symmetric low-pass filter
For a square pixel grid, the ideal 2-d low-pass filter with a horizontal and a vertical cut-off angular frequency $\omega_c$ in radians has an impulse response (kernel) $h_{\small\square}(x, y)$ that ...
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How do I filter out the specific components at 20MHz, in this figure?
I used the filter builder (lowpass) , to cut off the frequency at 0.5 MHz, and thus used a stopband of 0.1pi, and a passband of 0.0125pi. (Sampling Frequency= 80MHz).
However, the output was still ...
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Fixed-point Exponential Moving Average filter with given cutoff frequency
I want to implement in fixed point arithmetic an exponential moving average filter, with a specific cutoff frequency for a given sampling rate.
The formula for the filter is
$$
y_n = \alpha x_n + (1 -...
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Why is Cheby 2 filter uncommon?
I've been reading the Chebyshev filters chapter in The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing and it says
"The Chebyshev filters discussed in this chapter are called type 1 ...
