Questions tagged [spectrogram]
A spectrogram is a time-varying spectral representation (forming an image) that shows how the spectral density of a signal varies with time.
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What is the advantage of overlapping windows while evaluating Spectrogram?
I've seen many documents that refer to calculate spectrogram through overlapping windows but haven't found clear documents on why this is done and how to calculate the number of points that need to be ...
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Why Matlab Spectrogram of slow and rarely sampled signal shows high frequencies
I have a signal, which was measured for 14.4 minutes (= 864 seconds). There are 192 measurements, so one measurement was done in every 4.5 seconds, which results in a 0.22 Hz sampling frequency if I ...
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How to use tfa.image.sparse_image_warp?
I have the log mel spectrograms of a few audio clips and I am trying to augment the spectrograms using tfa.image.sparse_image_warp so that time warping can be achieved as done in Google's SpecAugment.
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How to get rid of noise in audio files?
Is there any method to get rid of noise in wite circles of the spectrogram? I have done the high pass filter for a cut-off frequency of 1 kHz. And I'v also done a adptive noise reduction in adbobe ...
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How to get coordinates(x(time),y(frequency),z(intensity(db))) from spectrogram?
I have created this spectrogram from a wav file. Please have a look:
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I want to get the x = time, y= frequency, z=intensity(db) of every pixel of the spectrogram. How can ...
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Why is the mel filter bank used to create a mel spectrogram?
The formula for converting frequencies from Hz to mel scale is as follows:
$$2595\log(1+f/700).$$
So why is the mel filter bank used? What is the origin of the mel filter bank?
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STFT with varying window lengths (like the continuous wavelet transform)
I was wondering if it is possible to use windows of varying lengths when making a spectrogram based on the short-time Fourier transform (STFT). That is, for higher frequencies I would use shorter ...
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What is really the Mel-filterbank?
After applying STFT to a signal, you typically need to convert the frequencies to the Mel scale. Typically the frequency values range from $0$ to $N/2$, where $N$ is the width of each sliding window.
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Time-Frequency analysis of IQ data in MatLab
I am new to signals processing, and am trying to match the information I'm getting out of MatLab to that taken from a commercial spectral visualization/playback tool. That is, I know what my data ...
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What is the unit of the color axis on a Matlab spectrogram, and bandpower?
I am new to signal processing, but successfully made a spectrogram with Matlab. It is nice and working, showing the expected output on the graph, but I just cannot understand what the numbers mean on ...
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generating log mel spectrogram using librosa
I have come across 2 different ways of generating log-mel spectrograms for audio files using librosa and I don't know why they differ in the final output, which one is "correct" or how ...
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Why does Matlab spectrogram look stripy when windowed input is zero-padded?
I am working on a little project, and stumpled upon something I cannot understand yet. I am learning cognitive science, and don't have DSP knowledge background, only learning from what I find on the ...
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Tell a recording of Martian wind from a recording of Earth's wind
Perseverance Rover's SuperCam Records Wind on Mars, sol 11
(Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/CNRS/ISAE-Supaero)
How do I interpret an image of a spectrogram of an audio wind signal?
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How do I interpret an image of a spectrogram of an audio wind signal?
I am running the following code in python to get the spectrogram of a audio signal of wind:
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Welch Method FFT Python - Scaling factor?
I've been implementing a Welch method FFT and I am trying to work out the correct scaling factor that should be applied to the output of the function so the PSD is accurate because at the moment it's ...
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Audio-Processing for DeepSpeech model
I try to understand audio signal processing from Deep Speech: Scaling up end-to-end speech recognition paper.
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Since the Switchboard and Fisher corpora are distributed at a sample rate of 8kHz, ...
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Spectrogram without using stft
Can I use any kind of transform to make spectrogram, not just stft? Is it possible to get the spectrograms of a signal without using stft?
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Stft of sinusoids
I have a sinusoidal signal of 10 minutes. For the first 5 minutes, the signal has a frequency of 100 Hz and for the next 5 minutes, the signal has a frequency of 200 Hz.
1 - If I look at the ...
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Stockwell S-Transform and multitapering
I want to estimate just the spectral amplitudes at different time points using S-transform given a noisy signal. Would I benefit (in terms of noise reduction) from an approach used in multi taper ...
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Python: How to generate log-frequency spectrogram from an audio?
I want to make a log-frequency spectrogram out of this audio. Later, I need this spectrogram for pitch sequence analysis.
This is a sample sequence I want to achieve:
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Use of spectrograms in using deep learning on EEG related problems
I am currently working on a classification problem related to EEG signals. My professor asked me to convert those signals into their spectrograms and try various convolutional neural networks on them. ...
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Get Spectrogram from Filtered Power Spectrum
My objective is to get the higher resolution of spectrogram on the high-frequency area (2000 Hz - 5000 Hz) for a section of speech audio. I know that we typically apply Mel-scaled filter bank to get ...
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Confusion about spectrograms: conceptual problem
The following code generates a spectrogram as shown in the image. The matrix s which is the spectrogram is of size 129x40 for a ...
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FM modulation - recovering bits
I'm trying to complete one task:
Download some FM modulated signals from page http://www.w1hkj.com/modes/index.htm. Calculate their spectrograms, i.e. short-time Fourier transform. Observe different
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How to determine number of filters in filter bank based on spectrogram of audio signal?
I want to do an analysis and than synthesis of audio signal, which is audio of vowel 'a', using Matlab. For this I need to use filter bank(array of band-pass filters). I have drawn four different ...
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How to find peak frequency in an audio frequency spectrum?
I have a audio file consisting of multiple frequencies, I need to find all the frequency peaks in the frequency spectrum after doing FFT.
But the issue is how can I be able to set the threshold line ...
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Spectrum of FM signal?
If a carrier ($f_c$) is FM modulated by a single sine wave ($f_m$), its spectrum is composed of frequencies at $f_c + kf_m$ ($k \in \mathbb{Z}$) whose amplitudes are weighted by $J_n(\beta)$, the $k$-...
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How to apply audio superposition in mel spectrogram domain
Very rusty physicist here.
I have two audio spectrograms and I want to work out how to calculate the spectrogram of the superposition of the original waveforms (without having access to the original ...
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Power Spectral Density Reconstruction
I am from an ML background and I am working on MP3 audio reconstruction and I have managed some amount of spectrogram reconstruction but I have noticed that the higher frequency end of the generated ...
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Python audio analysis: which spectrogram should I use and why?
I am doing my final project at university: pitch estimation from song recording using convolutional neural network (CNN). I want to retrieve pitches existed in a song recording. For CNN input, I am ...
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Trade-off in sample-rate & FFT-size & Doppler
I've got a stream of digital IQ samples let's say at $F_s = 1 MSPS$ that consist of a narrowband signal, in awgn. Let's say the signal BW is ~ 100Hz. The narrowband signal's center (or base) frequency ...
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Understanding CQT (Constant-Q Transformation) parameters for piano AMR (automatic music recognition) with Librosa Library
I am doing an automatic music recognition project with a deep learning model. For my data preprocessing, I am trying to calculate the Constant Q Transform for Polyphonic 88-key piano audio using ...
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Questions about MP3 bitrate conversions
I was trying to analyse the lossy compression of MP3 audio files through their Spectrograms and the results were something like this (where the upper is 80Kbps and lower is 128Kbps).
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Plot Spectrogram and FFT plots from samples collected by Atheros AR9271
I'm entering the world of signal processing, and as one of my first projects I've decided to plot a spectrogram and FFT Plot.
The samples comes from an Atheros AR9271. More details can be found here: ...
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How to efficiently apply spectrum sensing algorithm
Lets assume 1 signal (lets call it PPG) that is composed "mostly" of 3
different main frequencies components ($f_1, f_2, f_3$) and their harmonics. Now let's assume we have 16 copies of this ...
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Determining statistically the bandwidth of a signal from a spectrogram
My question is how to determine the parameters of a signal from a spectrogram statistically. The most important parameters that I am looking for are the lower and higher frequencies of the signal. I ...
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How does modulation frequency appear in the modulation spectra?
I'm trying to familiarise myself with the concept of modulation spectra that I met in this work. My main question appears in the title: how does the modulation frequency appear in the modulation ...
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How can I perform sound classification based on spectrograms and waveforms?
I noticed that almost all machine learning enabled sound classification approaches use spectrograms or MFCCs as input for feature extraction.
I am new to the area and would like to know if we can also ...
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spectrogram of a leak in a water pipe
I'm doing a work on the acoustic emission of a leak. I am using a 1.80 m cylindrical tube with water, and the leak is simulated by means of a tap that opens after I have applied negative pressure ...
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How to make spectrogram smooth?
I am quite new in DSP and generating the spectrogram of an audio file. My spectrogram is not smooth and it is showing the quite raw image with pixel values, something like this
While I am looking for ...
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what is the relationship between a spectrogram and the uncertainty principle heisenberg? [closed]
what is the relationship between these two things
Perhaps more resolution in a spectrogram is equivalent to knowing more the position of the electron and less resolution is knowing the velocity of the ...
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Using MATLAB's Spectrogram Function for Analysis
In the documentation - sepctrogram().
Question 1)s = spectrogram(signal) and ...
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Fbank back to wav
Here's my problem. I have some wav files. I use the wavs as input to compute the fbanks. Then I want to do some stuff with the fbanks and then I want to recreate a wav file associated to the new fbank....
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Order of operations when creating a spectrogram
Signals noob here! I'm dipping my toes into your world by trying to recreate the Shazam algorithm, and I have a quick practical question:
When creating a spectrogram, is it better to take in a whole ...
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Reconstructing audio from a given spectrogram and phase data
I have 2 seperate files called: spectrogram and phases. Spectrogram contains magnitude information of audio and phases contain the phase information of each windowed area. I need to reconstruct the ...
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Interpretation of fft plot
I am trying to understand how to interpret a spectrogram image plot: (1) what does the yellow band and its corresponding color code with a high positive value indicate? There are so many yellow bands ...
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Faded line in spectrogram for a chirp
I've generated this spectrogram using wavelet convolution.
The chirp is generated like so:
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How can a CNN account for spectro-temporal constraints in neural data?
What are there the best ways to leverage the unique "geometrical" constraints of spectro-temporal signal representations (architecture, filter shapes, data augmentation, etc.)? For example, ...
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Does downsampling increase the resolution of frequencies?
I am currently working in MATLAB and had to downsample a .WAV file (I used the downsample function in MATLAB) to 44.1 kHz.
However, when I compared the two spectrograms of the original signal vs the ...
