Signal Processing

Questions tagged [real-time]

Ask Question

real-time refers to processing done with a strict set of time constraints in a deterministic manner.

138 questions
Newest
Active
Bountied
Unanswered
Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
0
votes
0answers
18 views

Why is voice clipping happening after Dynamic Range Compressor (MATLAB) when applied in real time on chunks of data?

I have been working on real-time audio signals on smartphones (iOS and Android) and my goal is to make voice amplitude stable in a certain range even if a person is talking closer to the mic of the ...
2
votes
2answers
30 views

Non-Uniformly Partitioned Convolution Implementation

I've succeded in implementing the uniformly partitioned convolution algorithm and now I'm looking to implement the non-uniformly partitioned version. I've had no luck with running parallel threads on ...
3
votes
2answers
80 views

Real Time Partitioned Convolution Not Working

EDIT: Scroll down for actual working code. I'm working on implementing a real-time convolvution reverb JACK client on C and I've been trying to follow a number of sources (including Gardner and Wefers ...
0
votes
1answer
38 views

xcorr MATLAB is not giving accurate result in case of noisy signals

I've a signal $x(n)$. I've generated its delayed copy named $x1(n)$ and applied xcorr function of MATLAB to find out the delay. It gives accurate delay. Now I ...
0
votes
1answer
42 views

How to remove or smooth the comb filter effect in real time audio signal mixing?

I have been working on a project where I have to mix multiple audio signals of the same source coming from different slave smartphones on one master smartphone in a distributed way. Now I have aligned ...
0
votes
1answer
47 views

Timeshifting in streaming based audio processing

I am currently running into a larger problem whilst programming an audio processing software. My target is time-shifting signals in frequency domain, then transform them back to time domain and ...
0
votes
0answers
24 views

What are the characteristics of a smartphone speaker?

What are the characteristics of a smartphone speaker? Whether it is linear or non-linear?
0
votes
0answers
22 views

How to acquire data from an analog input device and feed it back as analog output in real time?

We have a Measurement Computing USB-1616HS-4 card which has 16 Single ended analog inputs and 4 Single ended analog outputs. The cards are capable of 1 million samples/s per channel. One of our ...
0
votes
1answer
39 views

FFT requirements of real time signal from sensors

I have an electrical current sensor which generates measurements every second. I want to calculate the FFT of this signal. Since my real-time values are received every second, I think that the fastest ...
0
votes
0answers
49 views

understanding FIR SRRC filter with memory implementation in C

I translated the Matlab QPSK receiver/transmitter into real-time C code that I have running on a PlutoSDR platform. QPSK receiver/transmitter I wrote the square root raised cosine filter for the TX ...
0
votes
0answers
104 views

Low-pass filter + HRTF cascade audio artifacts

I am implementing a 3D audio application. I have correctly implemented a set of HRTF to perform binaural simulation and interpolation. To achieve this, I converted the HRTF into minimum-phase ones, ...
0
votes
2answers
60 views

Electric Bass with RJ45 Digital Output

I'm working on a project bass guitar with individual outputs per string using Nu pickups from Cycfi Research: https://www.cycfi.com/ The common sense approach is to simply take their circular ...
0
votes
0answers
20 views

Phase-vocoder normalization for different speed factors

Question in short: How can I normalize audio from a block-based phase-vocoder system without knowing the global minimum and maximum during runtime? Longer version: Hey! I am very new to DSP and need ...
0
votes
0answers
23 views

in TD-PSOLA, what rate to use for analysis frames of unpitched audio?

First post here, apologies if this is a bit long... I'm working on a real-time implementation of the TD-PSOLA technique: I'm processing frames that are sized consistently according to 2 * the period ...
2
votes
1answer
497 views

Dynamic filter in real time audio

Following my previous question: Removing cracking in real time audio, I'm trying to implement a dynamic filter in real time audio. What I want to do is to create a filter where I can change the cut-...
0
votes
2answers
209 views

Removing cracking in real time audio filtering

I am getting back to DSP applications after a while and I've written a real time audio player in Python. Basically I'm reading chunks of data from a .wav file (I am doing this to simulate a real time ...
1
vote
1answer
94 views

Echo removal from a chunk of PCM signal

I have implemented a paper regarding echo detection in real-time using MFCC coefficients. Now, I want to remove the echo from the mixed signal. Let me explain it as: There are two signals, NearEnd ...
0
votes
0answers
36 views

How to ampfify/reduce certain frequencies in time data

currently I am trying to filter time data so that certain containing frequencies are getting amplified/reduced. I am dealing with a system which has a certain characteristic that I would like to get ...
0
votes
1answer
191 views

Applying zero-phase filtering in the frequency domain - also works in real-time?

In my application a filtering in the frequency space is desired. I designed two high-pass filters: $h_1$ Butterworth IIR filter, and $h_2$ FIR. I designed them using Python's ...
1
vote
0answers
29 views

What are the wavelet packet functions and how are they different from the wavelet and scaling functions?

I understand that in the decomposition process, wavelet and scaling functions are used to split the signal to approximation and detail coefficients. Most of the time I saw the wavelet and scaling ...
1
vote
1answer
310 views

Apply "non-causal" filter buffer-wise, a.k.a "soft real-time filtering"

I am dealing with digital filtering of signals, both offline and in real-time. Typical filtering purposes are highpass filter or bandpass filter. So far I worked on prerecorded signals (e.g. ...
0
votes
0answers
95 views

How to filter, in real-time, a quasi periodic signal

I have a signal affected by a rather complex quasi-periodic noise. I must filter this signal in real-time to remove this noise. The noise is not really "high frequency" and its main ...
1
vote
2answers
72 views

Sampling the Wave Equation for String Vibration

I am having a difficult time understanding the basic principles when sampling the function describing the vibration of a string. Mainly I am confused on given a sampling rate how many samples to take ...
2
votes
3answers
264 views

Confusion understanding digital signal processor?

I am reading wikipedia article about digital signal processor and as shown in end of attached snapshot ." Most general-purpose microprocessors can also execute digital signal processing ...
1
vote
0answers
38 views

Why should wavelet re-synthesis produce an output when the main component is suppressed and what does this mean for denoising?

I understand that aliasing occurs in DWPT if the wavelet used is of low order since the "filters" are not perfect and the combination of down sampling and overlapping between bands causes ...
1
vote
0answers
17 views

How well can discrete wavelet packet transform reduce noises that are similar to the input signal in the same frequency band?

If I had 50Hz noise coming from power line, and signals in the same frequency range (EEG for example 0.1Hz to 100Hz). If my sampling frequency is 30kHz but I downsample my signal to 937kHz and use the ...
1
vote
2answers
93 views

Can discrete wavelet transform for denoising purposes be implemented in real time? [closed]

I have been researching effective algorithms for denoising biomedical signals (non-stationary) that can be implemented in real time either using FPGA or DSP. I can across many suggestions for ...
0
votes
1answer
104 views

Real time signal processing use cases for eigenvalues of symmetric matrices

I realize that this might be somewhat of an unusual and specific question. I know that the eigenvalues of symmetric matrices are used in a number of ways in scientific computing, such as for finding ...
1
vote
1answer
65 views

Are there any recursive online max/min filters for time-series

Are there any online recursive filters that can approximate local, time-varying minimum and maximum values of a time series?
1
vote
0answers
311 views

Real-time audio processing FIR vs IIR

My project consists in filtering an audio signal from the microphone, in order to remove noise, and find the time distance between two peeks with the highest precision possible. I understood that an ...
1
vote
1answer
189 views

How does Overlap-Add work for IIR filter?

So let's say I'm trying to implement something like an LPC vocoder. I analyse a speech signal by breaking it up in small chunks and determining their LPC coefficients, which are by design, the ...
0
votes
2answers
556 views

Signals in real world?especially natural signals?

Do all the signals in real world ,that are of interest in engineering(for measurements or processing)are only continous/analog or there any other alternatives also? For example birds make voice,...
1
vote
0answers
66 views

How to find if the signals are in sync or out of sync with each other?

Considering these are two signals over time, black and red.Following are some of the properties Every Second a new data point is added over time . There is no control on the generation of the ...
3
votes
3answers
389 views

realtime software 90 degree phase shift a sinusoidal signal

I would post this to stack overflow but it seems to me more like a signals and systems problem, which EE's thrive on. I need a realtime system implemented in software that can generate a sinusoid ...
3
votes
2answers
495 views

Real time numerical differentiation of signals

I am trying to implement a PID controller in Python and I am having some problems with real time numerical differentiation of my my discrete signal. I am using the following method: $$d{\frac{x_n}{...
0
votes
0answers
930 views

Summing RMS Values

I'm trying to calculate the RMS of a signal whilst only having access to the current RMS values of the waveforms making it up. This is because I need to calculate the total RMS so I can use it to ...
3
votes
1answer
48 views

Synchronising audio in realtime without knowledge of original signal

Was doubting whether this is the right SE forum to ask my (elaborate) question, so don’t hesitate to let me know if it’s not. Also, if anyone knows of a better way to title the question, feel free to ...
0
votes
1answer
60 views

Detect playback position in swept sine sweep

I am wondering what the most precise method is to detect the playback sample position of a sine sweep? The real playback sample position is unknown and an DSP with constraint computing capabilities ...
2
votes
2answers
152 views

How to detect real time sound onsets?

I'm a Software Engineer Undergraduate. I'm trying to detect drum strokes(beats) in real-time in python. I used amplitude threshold-based onset detect (beat detect) algorithm but it takes other noises ...
0
votes
1answer
56 views

Initial Clock synchronization between multiple smart phones (android OS) connected over Wifi?

I want to synchronize the initial clock of multiple smartphone devices (Android-based) for real-time VoIP communication. Basically, a MANET has been formed and I want to synchronize the clocks up to <...
0
votes
0answers
148 views

How to Synchronize multiple real time audio streams before mixing them?

I have been working on a VoIP solution in which I have to mix multiple audio streams coming from various sources. I have been facing muffled sound after the mixing of streams. I have implemented ASW ...
1
vote
0answers
186 views

FFT algorithm for real-time analysis

In a project, I have real-time voice audio being delivered in buffers of around 128 samples at a time. I want to calculate the autocovariance of the signal and use it to control an AR filter. To do ...
0
votes
0answers
83 views

Is the whole data needed for the fast fourier transform with an ongoing signal?

I sample an signal with around 840k values a second, to check the spectrum around <400kHz. But i can't save the whole data as it is just to much for my microcontroller. I know that for the ...
2
votes
1answer
245 views

How do audiobook players manage to quickly speedup/slowdown playback speed without using more memory?

Many audiobook player apps on Android have a reading speed slider which lets us choose the reading speed e.g. 0.5x 0.75x 1.00x 1.25x 1.50x. This is time-stretching ...
0
votes
1answer
25 views

Implementing echo on adsp 21262 [closed]

I'm working on an echo implementation on the board adsp 21262. I've added a buffer to have more samples to work with. I end up then with 4 buffers of size 2048 each. The problem is that I need to ...
1
vote
1answer
901 views

How to find correlation/cross-correlation of two signals in real time?

Considering there are two signals and the signals are real time in nature. Visibly when one signal does up the other signal does down and vice versa. Sometimes both the signals moved towards the same ...
2
votes
1answer
1k views

Are there DC removal techniques that do not introduce a filtering transient?

I have an application in which I need to remove DC components from a sampled signal in real time (basically the same constraints of ECG, but it has nothing to do with the brain). My measured signal in ...
0
votes
1answer
313 views

Implementing real-time signal processing filters

I’m currently working on my capstone for school, and I’m looking for some guidance/tips when it comes to real-time filtering. The nature of the project is to monitor breathing patterns, send the ...
3
votes
1answer
253 views

FFT of a $N$-length real sequence via FFT of a N/2-length complex sequence

I would like to optimise FFT algorithm by only using a FFT of size $N/2$ to transform a real sequence of length $N$. There are already many questions and many excellent answers on the matter (here for ...
1
vote
2answers
730 views

What fps can be considered as a hardline for real-time performance? Is there any academic paper that describes this?

I am trying to design a deep learning based inferencing solution for security applications. My deployed program achieves an FPS of 15fps for classification. Can it be considered real-time?

1
2 3

Your privacy

By clicking “Accept all cookies”, you agree Stack Exchange can store cookies on your device and disclose information in accordance with our Cookie Policy.