Questions tagged [noise]
In signal processing noise can be considered random unwanted data without meaning.
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Calculating variance of sensor readings from noise density
I do not know much about signal processing and would appreciate if someone could confirm if my calculations are correct.
Here I have the Noise density of an accelerometer that has frequency 6400hz ...
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How can it be possible that I hear people voice from my computer speaker?
I searched on web and apparently can be due to truck drivers communicating at CB band which is around 20MHz. And apparently this communication may interference with the frequencies used by computer's ...
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Is the noise at different sampling points related? [closed]
Given the power spectral density of noise, if the values at different sampling points of the same noise are added, what is the power spectral density at this time? Is there any correlation between the ...
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How to produce a noise spectrum from an rms velocity specification?
For a dynamic model I am looking at the appropriate input to analyse the performance under the influence of floor vibrations.
The norm is an ISO VC-C floor spectrum as displayed in the image. However, ...
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How can I denoise this signal?
I have data captured by a wireless sensor that is noisy. It randomly jumps in value frequently, and I want to know what this signal will look like without these jumps. I am looking for an elegant ...
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Narrowband Gaussian Noise
Could anyone lead me on the right path on where I could get more information in regards to a narrowband Gaussian signal can be modeled as:
$$
X(t)\cos(2\pi f t)+Y(t)\sin(2\pi f t)
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where $X(t)$ and $...
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Kalman filter for multiple data sources, measurements from which have different characteristics of Gaussian noise
I am trying to use the Kalman filter for my task:
During the time, I receive data from different sensors. The state of the model may change over time according to the Const Velocity model, or the ...
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Interpretation of a non-canonical Allan Variance plot
I am currently working on characterizing the noise sources of a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) sensor using an Allan Variance plot, which is commonly employed to analyze frequency stability ...
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Removing noise from data series of road surface data
I have a data series containing underlying noise, the plot of which is :
The issue is to remove the noise leaving the pattern which is raised above the lower level. The lower level is road surface ...
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Output spectrum of the direct digital synthesis (DDS)
I have a question about the output spectrum of DDS, which consists of a phase accumulator and look-up table.
Since the look-up table stores accurate information about sinusoidal waveform, I think ...
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Shot noise at an imaging system - is it white?
Shot noise is generally a white noise. For an imaging system based on detectors the shot noise variance that scalers linearly with flux and time (details here and here):
$$\sigma^2=I\cdot QE\cdot\...
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What duration of a white noise burst is required for it to be "white" at a given frequency or frequency range?
I am running white noise bursts (with very short ramps on/off to prevent discontinuities) through underdamped resonant bandpasses which are tuned to any given $f_0$ and an underdamped $Q$.
Continuous ...
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Is there a method to detect sum of sinusoidal signal?
Consider we have $N$ samples. In that $N$ samples we may have $M$ samples from sum of sinusoidal signal plus noise. Obviously $M<N$. In case $N=M$ we have only $N$ noise samples. Let us assume $M$...
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How to accurately estimate the quality factor of a noisy signal
I'm currently interested in measuring the quality factor of a noisy signal. For the purposes of example, consider a single degree of freedom mechanical system excited by white noise:
\begin{equation}
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How to mask part of signal?
I am trying to implement masking in 1D signal data,
I saw in one paper that they are masking 70% of the signal as in the figure below:
In another study, they have mentioned that the mask part is ...
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How to generate covariance matrix of coloured noise
For standard gaussian white noise, the covariance matrix is a identity matrix. What about other coloured noises (generated from standard gaussian): Brown(red), Pink, Blue, Violet?
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Filtering out chaotic noise from breathing sensor signal
I've got a signal from a respiratory sensor (chest strap, piezo sensor) and I need to extract (live) the breath-per-minute value. Now for a nice steady signal this is not such a problem, the problem ...
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Why different noise terms are read at specific sampling interval in Allan Variance plot?
I was trying to identify Quantization Noise, Angle Random Walk, Bias Instability, and Rate Random Walk from Allan Variance plot which as Allan deviation on y axis and Sampling Time Interval ...
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ADC response inversion to Gaussian noise
Assuming the input to an ADC is a Gaussian white noise signal, and being a bit idealistic in all senses, is there a theoretical expression that links input power to output power which can be inverted, ...
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Remove noise from lung sound wav
I am working in this dataset data.mendeley.com/datasets/jwyy9np4gv/3? aiming to develop a machine learning model for classifying various diseases based on lung sounds during both expiration and ...
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What is the event that repeats itself in sinusoidal signals
I am studying medical imaging and it has been stated that it is sufficient for Nyquist Theorem to hold for the signal to be Bandlimited. I am trying to understand what is the wave in a signal.
What is ...
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Assumptions of Nyquist sampling theorem [closed]
Hoping I can save the question and it doesn't get migrated to philosophy stackexchange as Hilmar said in any case I don't think it is a different question the question was always meant to be ...
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Why is energy zero at zero bandwidth?
From the video lecture on noise analysis by Razavi here. Can anyone explain in more detail what Razavi said here? Why is the energy at a single frequency (zero bandwidth) zero?
Lets look at the ...
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Find the spectral density of the square of white noise with a limited bandwidth
I tried the following order of operations:
Let's consider the spectral density of the square of white noise with
with a limited frequency band. If $S_{x} \! \left( f \right)$ is the spectral density ...
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Online Noise Reduction on Non-Stationary, Broadband Signals
im capturing ultrasonic waves using an analog MEMS mic and other components on a PCB. My signal is similiar broadband and non-stationary (see 2) and im trying to remove/reduce environmental noise. I ...
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Correcting noise floor of DFT sampled signal
As mentioned in the slide below (full slides located here, starting at PDF page 29), the apparent noise floor on a DFT plot depends on the number of sample points $N$ used to calculate the DFT. The ...
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Relation of SNR and BER
I am working towards establishing the error rate of the communication system relying on on-off keying. I have trouble understanding the estimation of bit error rate (BER) performance when the ...
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how to choose sample frequency if there is alias frequency?
my circuit only need very low frequency of signal and cannot add anti alias filter in analog domain, so I adopt sample rate frequency hopping as follow:
1、use FFT to identify if there high value ...
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Noise (in dB) added to a signal but within range limits
I have a sine wave signal to which I add noise in terms of dB.
This is based on
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14058340/adding-noise-to-a-signal-in-python
The signal is sent to a DAC and there ...
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Reducing 1/f-noise
I have some mems accelerometer (ADXL355 and IIS2ICLX) and i want to get a accuracy of 0,005 ° incline measuring by using the axis of it.
I am measuring with arduino over I2C and have a Samplerate ...
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The power of a sinusoidal component in noisy PSD
I am very new to signal processing and I have been doing a lot of reading on it but I don't seem to understand everything. I'm hoping you can help my confusion a little.
I am simulating a lidar signal ...
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Visually identifying audio noise
I have an audio file consisted of a sole 440 Hz sinusoidal wave, which can be heard here.
After some manipulation, I've added a noise to it, resulting in a second audio file, avilable here.
The noise ...
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Removing multiplicative noise (signal) in FFT
I've read up a little here on how to deal with multiplicative noise vs additive noise, with the most simple approach to take the logarithm of the signal to remove the noise. I'm wondering how this ...
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Removing fixed phase offset noise
This feels like a real basic question but I'm struggling to find a clear answer.
I have PSK signal that subjected to a fixed phase shift noise, introduced between the transmitter and receiver - so the ...
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I need help deciphering an audio file .mp3 file to get an answer. From a game
I was given a .mp3 audio file needed to be deciphered however I don't know how.
I found the spectrogram which outlines the words "youtube", so I suspect the final answer might have a youtube ...
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Related to Additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN)
In my research work regarding wireless communication, I came across many research papers wherein AWGN is assumed to be modelled as "complex Gaussian with zero mean and unit variance".
I ...
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Modelling MEMS accelerometer noise
I am trying to compare two MEMS accelerometers in terms of their noise for ground motion monitoring applications. I would like to take some "clean" data (recorded by good quality ...
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Noise on microscopy data
I have to analyze beating cardiomyocytes. In order to do so, I have written a Matlab script to replicate the method found in Béland et al., Front. Physiol. (2022) (doi: doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2022....
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Periodogram Formula for sampling noise
The formula I know for the periodogram is
$$I\left(f\right)=\frac{1}{NT}\sum_{n=0}^{N-1}\left|x\left[n\right]\exp\left(-2\pi fjnT\right)\right|^2$$
but for this one question I have which states that $...
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Allan deviation correct with one-side noise but wrog with two-side noise. Why?
I'm developing a Simulink model for noise according to the description of the algorithm of Accelerometer in this page: IMU simulation model.
My system takes the RandomWalk (defined in [unit], being ...
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Smoothening Noisy FFT
I've got the following FFT with a sampling frequency of 192 kHz that has around 17.000.000 samples. The signal is a hiss of escaping gas. This looks noisy and i want to determine the characteristic &...
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Frequency content of a noisy signal
To find the frequency content of a noisy signal (PSD), there are two methods below:
#1 Take the fourier transform of its power signal (square the noisy signal)
#2 Find the autocorrelation function of ...
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How to detect faint, dense grains on an image?
I have a bunch of images similar to the following:
As you can see, there are faint grains in a roughly ellipse-shaped area, along with a few bright ones. I need to identify the location and density ...
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Proper audio noise and artifact detection approach
I'm working on developing an audio device testing suite (for speakers and like). I'm looking for approaches to detecting two types of noise: static such as white or pink noise and artifacts such as ...
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Can white noise be correlated to a random signal
For an random signal $X$ (does not matter if it is correlated or uncorrelated), given lag $τ$. If white noise is added to this signal, then can the summation of them be a correlated signal? Also, even ...
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What's the distribution of the DFT of a real-valued, zero-mean, normally distributed random vector?
Suppose $X$ is a real-valued N-dimensional Gaussian vector, $X \sim \mathcal{N}(\mathbf{0}, C_X)$. The discrete Fourier transform can be obtained by left-multiplying with the unitary DFT matrix, i.e. $...
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Help figuring out how to extract audio content correctly from a file that produces spiky waveform with audible hiss/noise
I'm trying to extract PCM wave sequences from different files (files that are NOT audio files but contain audio data, and other data all in one file), and while this code does extract the expected ...
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Determine Noise Level by Convolving N Signals
I using a microphone to determine (air) leakage characteristics. The signals need to be filtered to reduce the noise level and i thought of using the Spectral Subtraction Technique. Since im having 4 ...
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Extracting transfer function from output measurement
Let's say I am generating pure sine oscillations with a laboratory instrument on which vibration frequency and amplitude are tunable (there are uncertainties +/- 1 % with my inputs), and I get my ...
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How to convert the phase noise spectrum density to frequency spectrum density?
Following the answer in this post: Phase noise and frequency noise relationship, I can calculate the phase noise spectrum density with the unit from $\frac{dB_{c}}{Hz}$ to $\frac{rad}{\sqrt{Hz}}$. ...