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Scipy butter filter - remove DC offset w/ high sample rate
I am having a hard time figuring out how to employ a high pass filter to remove the DC offset of my data signal with the "scipy butter" function because my sample rate is quite high. The ...
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How do I create a composite triangle wave form in python?
I am trying create a composite wave pattern, such as a varying sawtooth wave in python.
So far I have:
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Why the inverse discrete fourier transform of the Ricker pulse isn't the same as the Ricker pulse in time domain?
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I'm trying to use Python's scipy library to compute the IDFT of the Ricker wavelet function and compare it with the analytical time-domain version of the same function. When I compare the ...
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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-...
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scipy and numpy aren't working
I firstly installed python and it's packages with
sudo apt-get install python-dev ipython python-numpy python-matplotlib python-scipy cython
later after I tried to ...
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Strange behavior from frequency to angular frequency in FFT
I have written a code to compute the Fast Fourier Transform of a simple complex exponential with frequency $f=50.0$, using scipy.fft. The code is written below:
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Difference between librosa.stft and scipy.signal.stft
I read the source code of librosa.stft and sicpy.signal.stft, and notice that the calculation results of STFT(short-time fourier transform) in these two libraries are quite different:
In scipy.signal....
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Scipy Butterworth highpass filter results in distortion and bloated output
Trying to use Scipy Butterworth filter to filter frequencies below 54 Hz from audio files. Audio files are stored as WAVs. Sample rate is 44100.
When I try using this filter the result is distorted (...
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Scipy fourier transform zero frequency spike (from DC offset) - de-meaning and hanning window have no effect
I am trying to plot the FFT of essentially a random signal that has a non-zero mean shown below.
The FFT of the signal is peaked over the zero frequency which usually indicates a DC offset. Although ...
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How to practically correct for group delay imposed by a digital filter (Python)
I'm using Python to filter a signal using a Butterworth filter (scipy.signal.butter) and subsequently passing this through a forward-backward filter with cascaded second order sections (scipy.signal....
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Ripple in a SciPy Butterworth SOS Filter
I have a script using SciPy for checking the RMS of various Butterworth Bandpass Filters of varying orders.
I would expect the RMS values to increase and decrease linearly and consistently as you get ...
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CWT at low scales: PyWavelets vs Scipy
Low scales are arguably the most challenging to implement due to limitations in discretized representations. Detailed comparison here; the principal difference is in how the two handle wavelets at ...
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How to calculate PSD if i have power vs freq spectrum?
i have a signal something like this
how to calculate PSD?
i have freq from 191000200 to 196500000
time gap or delta t = 1 or 2 sec, (what i mean is [tn] - [tn-1])
i will be computing in python any ...
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Python, Is there a way to find the properties of a subregion within a larger image region?
The goal: I have images with particles that I need to find the area of. Each particle also has four to five sub-regions that I need to know the area of. Think of a bunch of stripped shirts in a ...
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Are IIR filters (and specifically Butterworth filter) causal?
I am new to signal processing. I am learning now about filtering and I am trying to implement high pass filter (HPF),and later band-pass filter (BPF). I implement the filters in ...
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Filtering a square signal with a median filtering to preserve the edges
If needed, you can find my first post for this problem here.
I am trying to clean the following signal:
As proposed in the comment, I tried to use this post proposing 2 methods: median filtering and ...
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How do I set window length and shift length for computing STFT on Scipy?
Does nperseg=32, noverlap=16 mean the window length is 32mS with a shift of 16mS?
Refer here for more details
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Showing specific values in an STFT plot
I have a short term fourier transform plot that I plot using matplotlib's pcolormesh() function:
If I zoom in the plot, I see this:
Now, I want the plot to just ...
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Complex Samples (IQ) - Baseband Filtering
We are currently analyzing a large set of IQ samples in a desktop application and we are interested in implementing many different bandpass filters dynamically.
We realized, that working with scipy ...
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Are there any tools for generating fixed point filter implementations?
It's very easy to make a filter in Scipy or many other tools, but implementing this filter in fixed point in C or VHDL/Verilog is always a chore. I mean, in theory it's just a matter of adequately ...
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scipy.signal.deconvolve not working, Blind deconvolution in python
I am trying to deconvolve my original signal with a given wavelet (Ricker wavelet). But scipy.signal.deconvolve is not giving any output to the signal.
Impulse signal can be generated by below code.
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Difference between freqz vs freqresp in scipy?
I'm always confused that scipy has
scipy.signal.freqz, but also
scipy.signal.lti.freqresp / ...
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Hilbert transform with scipy.signal
I'm coding with python and I just started to use the Hilbert transform from scipy.signal. Consequently, to check the result I got I tried to verify a property of ...
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Why is there a difference in the spectrum of an audio file between Sonic Visualizer and my Python script?
I am working on a script which is creating a spectrum analysis from an audio file using SciPy and NumPy. Before I started, I analyzed the file using Sonic Visualizer, which got me the following result:...
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Lowpass Butterworth filter equation
I am using a 5th order lowpass Butterworth filter with a varying cutoff frequency, $f_c$, to smoothen some data coming from a spectrometer. An example of a spectrum, plotted with the filtered data, ...
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constructing and initializing a normalized lattice filter using scipy
I'd like to implement a 2nd order bandpass filter in scipy using a normalized lattice architecture. (I'm choosing a lattice because it's guaranteed stable even when changing the coefficients on a ...
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How to Save FFT output for fast read-in?
For a project, I'm reading in hundreds of short (4 sec) wavefiles and giving them to scipy fft for the frequency information for further processing/experimenting in various ways. Problem is, I want to ...
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Why is the number of frequencies decomposed in scipy.signal.stft() equal to the hop size?
I asked this over on StackOverflow first but figured you fine people might know more about signal processing (duh).
I'm trying to calculate the spectrogram of an audio file in python. There's a nice ...
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Decimating Non-Uniform large time-series data
I'm working with accelerometer data that is sampled at a non-uniform rate. There are major gaps in the data. Below is a scatter plot of the data
I can also give a sense of the frquencies at which ...
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SciPy - Distinguish between two group of periodic samples [closed]
First of all, I'm sorry for my bad English writing, plus, I'm new to DSP.
Background
We have got motion data of 20 cows. 10 cows are healthy and 10 cows are slightly lame.
Lameness is an abnormal ...
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Why is my signal attenuated after applying a HighPass-filter?
I am new to DSP, but I've been attempting apply a butterworth high-pass filter on a 1D array (Values peeking at 300~) to eliminate any noise, yet when applying a high pass filter, I'm ending up with ...
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downsample signal to a specific number of samples in Python
The Python Scipy library provides several functions to downsample signals, but they all have limitations:
The resample function is based on Fourier method, which means it assumes periodic signals.
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Is there a way to get output in second order sections (SOS) format from Scipy's signal.firwin
I am using Scipy's signal.firwin to implement a lowpass filter. Using the rule of thumb formula(s) to estimate the order of the filter, I am getting a very high number. I looked into this question, ...
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Demodulation of FSK signal
What kind of FSK signal is this and what demodulation technique can I use to demodulate it. Why is the phase of the 1's changing like that and how does that effect how it needs to be demodulated. I ...
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SciPy Lfilter issue
For one of my DSP projects, I decided to use python to perform signal processing. While I am new to python, I understand that it is a very powerful and versatile language. For my processing, I opted ...
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What Are The Semantics Of Wav-File Sample Values?
The title is the question. To make this concrete, assume I have a standard 16-bit single channel wav file, with (although it doesn't matter) a 16000 Hz sampling rate.
Each sample magnitude will be a ...
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How to implement Matlab welch in python with the same result?
I want to implement Matlab pwelch function in python.
The Matlab code is shown blew:
[PSD,f] = pwelch(data,length(data),[],[],2000);
which data is a row vector ...
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Why are low frequency peaks not sharp in scipy fft?
I am using numpy/scipy to plot graphs of sine waves. frequencies at 15 Hz or higher give nice, sharp peaks, but at lower frequencies, the peaks are smeared and the actual peak frequency can't be seen ...
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Can't seem to get welch function in scipy work correctly
I'm trying to learn DSP through using Python's scipy package.
I have measure some 200Hz signal from a machine. Now I want to inspect the spectral density of the signal. Here's the signal plotted out:
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Python Hilbert does not seem to calculate the envelope
I am following the example from: https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.signal.hilbert.html
And although I can replicate their example, it does not work with my data.
This is the ...
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Bandpass filter with very high sampling rate
Consider a bandpass filter with Low Cut 17Hz, High Cut 22 Hz, Fs = 45000 Hz and Order = 6. When I pass a mixture of multiple sinusoidal waves through this filter (with a sine wave of frequency 20 Hz), ...
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Negative Exponential Filter SciPy
I'm trying to transform a time series with a recursive filter to model a feedback.
I was able to do a simple filter like :
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How to convert a spectrogram back to a signal [duplicate]
I'm converting a signal to a spectrogram, manipulating that (nonlinear stuff), and then want to use the modified audio signal. I can make it so the segments are not overlapping, but am unsure how to ...
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How to pad a array representing music to pad the stft of this array?
I have an array named samples of size (2, 1321967) representing an audio file. When I pass it to scipy stft with
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Delay in Savitzky-Golay filtering
I am applying a Savitzky-Golay filter to a signal, using the scipy function.
I need to calculate the lag of the filtered signal, and how much is it behind the original signal.
Could someone shed ...
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Scipy Deconvolve help
I was playing with the deconvolve method in scipy and I can't seem to get it working properly (I am still really new to DSP/deconvolution). I convolved a gaussian with a fwhm of 2.0e-9 with a ...
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Filtering out different narrow-band frequencies at once
I have asked a closely related question on SO at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55168460/python-implementation-for-filtering-out-multiple-distinct-narrow-band-frequencie
but I am still unclear ...
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Third octave bandpass filter with python
I am very new to signal processing and coding which is why my questions might be really basic. I have a signal of the acoustic pressure p'(t) and I would like to use a third octave bandpass filter in ...
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Checking Parseval's Theorem for Gaussian Signal by Using Scipy
I'm trying to check Parseval's theorm for Gaussian signal. It's well known that fourier transform of $\exp(-t^2)$ is $\sqrt{\pi}\exp(-\pi^2 k^2)$. So I implement it by using quad and simps. I think ...
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Scipy Welch's gives different first element
I've re-implemented Welch's method and want to compare it to scipy.signal.welch. However, the first two and last elements of the resulting array are different.
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