Questions tagged [wavelet]
A wavelet is a wave-like oscillation with an amplitude that starts out at zero, increases, and then decreases back to zero.
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Joint Time-Frequency Scattering structure & implementation?
How does JTFS differ from wavelet time scattering in its computation graph, and how does FDTS discriminability work, at a lower level? How is it implemented in practice, and how can one visualize ...
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Joint Time-Frequency Scattering explanation?
How does JTFS work, intuitively? What are its motivations, and how's it differ from the Wavelet (time) Scattering transform? Can it be visualized?
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Wavelet Scattering time-warp equivariance
Is scattering equivariant to multiplicative time warps? Defined as
$$
x(t) \rightarrow x(\tau(t)t),\ \text{sup}|\tau'(t)| < 1
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This post claims it holds approximately - what are the arguments, ...
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Inverting a scalogram
A scalogram is said to discard phase information with modulus; is it still possible to recover the signal to some extent?
Algorithms like Griffin-Lim can invert within an error, but what's the ...
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Wavelet Scattering properties & implementation?
What are the properties of the scattering transform, besides shift invariance and warp stability? How is it implemented in practice, and how can one visualize its computational graph?
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Wavelet Scattering explanation?
How does Wavelet Scattering work, intuitively? What are its motivations, and how's it differ from the (continuous) Wavelet Transform? Can it be visualized?
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What is the importance of the translational invariance of the CWT?
Translational invariance is a property that the continuous wavelet transform (CWT) has but the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) does not have. It says that a shift of the signal, i.e. $x(t)\rightarrow ...
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How to plot the shape of a 2D wavelet?
I often see images like this:
where on the left it depicts 2D wavelets and on the right curvelets for different scales and locations.
How can I visualize different 2D wavelets/curvelets in such a way ...
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How to effectively stationarise non-periodic wave signals?
I am pre-processing a non-periodic signal for further implementation of autoregressive modelling on the signal. The signal is shown in the following figure. However, when I applied the Augmented ...
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Question about pywt.wavedec() validation
I am trying to validate and understand Wavelet decomposition using pywt.wavedec(). Here are the steps I took:
(1) For a 3 level decomposition, I added a sine component with the following frequency for ...
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What exactly is meant by "translation invariant dictionaries/wavelets"?
I'm trying to wrap my head around the notion of translation invariance in terms of dictionaries/wavelets. For example in Lecture Notes, Page 41 its written that one starts with a family of atoms/...
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Estimating significance in time-frequency spectrograms
I want to investigate the common input of two EMG signals using a wavelet-based approach. To this end, I chose the continuous wavelet transform to approach my research question. In addition, I would ...
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Inverse discrete wavelet transfrom
I am trying to understand the formula of the inverse wavelet transform. Although I have looked at many papers none of them fully define the summations that appear and this is creating a lot of ...
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How to alleviate the edging effect of the Hilbert transform?
I am trying to use Hilbert transform to extract the envelope of a residual signal. After implementing the Hilbert transform, I find that envelope jumps very high at its boundaries. May I ask the ...
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Continuous Wavelet Transform vs Discrete Wavelet Transform
The discrete wavelet transform is applied in many areas, such as signal compression, since it is easy to compute. I notice that, However, the continuous wavelet transform (CWT) is also applied to ...
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Manual DWT vs Python pywt
I am trying to understand Discrete Wavelet Transform. I am trying to do it manually to understand all the steps well.
Taking as an example the wavelet function 'sym2' knowing that its low decompostion ...
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Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) and wavelet family
I have just started reading about wavelets for a data compression problem that I want to perform. I am reading about Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) but I can't understand where the wavelet family ...
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Alternatives to Meyer Windows as Curvelets?
I am looking for alternative to Meyer window functions (Section 4.1) from which one can define a curvelet system.
Are there any similar window functions which would be as easy to implement?
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How does the scale of a wavelet relate to the Fourier frequency (or period) under CWT?
I noticed that there are many ways to relate the scale factor of wavelets to some characteristic frequency, such as the peak frequency, the central instantaneous frequency, and so on(plz see section 2....
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how does wavelet transform detect pulses from a signal
I am learning wavelet transform, below image is an example I have that uses haar wavelet for decomposing the simple haar wavelet like signal.
i know that the coefficients at each level are results of ...
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What does the intensity values on wavelet transform mean? Amplitude or power?
So when applying wavelet transform, we get a 2d plot. Each point in that 2d plot has a color, showing intensity of something. But I cannot understand if it is an amplitude or power?
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What scheme of padding should I choose if my 1D data satisfy the periodical boundary condition under CWT?
By CWT, I mean the continuous wavelet transform. The usual padding schemes are zero padding, periodic padding, and decay padding.
If I adopt the periodic padding, can I avoid the edge effects for the ...
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Understanding why we have low-pass/high-pass filters in MRA
I am new to Multiresolution analysis and I can't figure out and find something mathematically convincing of why in multiresolution decomposion the filters are low and high pass. I.e. in the ...
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Is single integral inverse CWT possible with real-valued wavelets?
Where the CWT in the title refers to the continuous wavelet transform. Torrence1998 proposed a reconstruction formula as shown below
Obviously, Eq.(11) is a single integral. However, Torrence1998 ...
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Compared with the real-valued continuous wavelet, what are the advantages of the complex-valued continuous wavelets?
I noticed that there are two types of wavelet functions, i.e. the real-valued, such as the Mexican hat wavelet, and the complex-valued, such as the Morlet wavelet. How was the complex-valued wavelet ...
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How to understand the statistical noise level of wavelet bicoherence?
Wavelet bicoherence was given by Van Milligen1995, which used to analyze turbulence. And the normalized squared wavelet bicoherence (usually called wavelet bicoherence) is shown below.
$$
WBC(a_1,a_2)=...
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Define frequencies present in the time-frequency spectrum using scipy.signal.cwt
I have a very basic question, but I didn't find a definite answer elsewhere.
When we use scipy.signal.cwt we specify only one parameter ...
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Error in check.datum(x1) : biwavelet package R
I am using CWT through biwavelet package to generate results of the Continuous Wavelet Spectrum of a time series. I have 443 observations of the time series. I want ...
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Understanding the units of wavelet time & frequency resolution
While using a continuous wavelet transform for my research project, I came up with some questions.
Having a set of equations for a Morlet wavelet,
$\psi(t)=\sqrt{\frac{2}{\pi}}e^{-t^2/2}e^{i6t}$
$\...
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Is it possible that the value of a continuous mother wavelet at origin is zero, i.e. $\psi(t=0)=0$?
According to Fourier transform, a continuous wavelet could be written as
$$
\psi(t)=\frac{1}{2\pi}\int\hat\psi(k)\text{e}^{-ikt}\text{d}k
$$
From the equation above, we know that $\psi(t=0)$ is
$$
\...
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Why does each node in the wavelet scattering transform split into multiple paths?
Why does each node in the wavelet scattering transform split into multiple paths as in this figure from https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.6763?
I understand roughly what’s happening along a single path, but ...
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How to filter out noise from non-stationary signal
I have this non-stationary signal.
the mean is roughly constant but the second moment (autocorrelation) does not depend only on the time lag $tau$.
Correct me if I am wrong in the above statement.
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Detecting and removing interferences from a signal
I am using MATLAB in order to denoise and remove interferences on a signal.
I used wdenoise to denoise my signal which works by setting a threshold (for example ...
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Smoothing contours for contour analysis for character recognition
I am making a character recognition library using contour analysis. Contours are sequencies of complex numbers X + j*Y (in fact in contour analysis they are defined ...
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Scaling Function and Wavelet Function
I don't understand the meaning of scaling function when I used CWT/DWT.
For me, I understand that the wavelet function (mother wavelet) is the function that we used to decompose our signal in ...
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Difference between Gabor filtering and Discrete Wavelet Transform
Both Gabor filtering and discrete wavelet transform (DWT) analyze the image in both spatial and frequency domains, unlike Fourier transform which analyzes the image only in the frequency domain. What ...
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How do I implement a footstep recognition algorithm? One that recognizes the start and end points of each footstep?
I have some time series data captured from a person's footsteps/strides (specifically, a person on rollerblades). It came from an IMU sensor placed on a person's boot. Each data point captures ...
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Wavelet, scaling, detail, and smooth/approximation coefficients
I was reading through the documentation for the R wavelets package and doing a little experimentation and noticed that the modwt ...
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PyWavelets SWT versus MODWT
I'm just learning about wavelets and the PyWavelets package. I saw a reference to MODWT, which led me to the SO post here and then to this Python package: https://github.com/pistonly/modwtpy
What ...
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wavelet_transform
I have a signal
$$Y=f(t),$$
which I want to show the anomalies, using the wavelets transform.
I don't know if I use the CWT or the DWT and which mother wavelet could I use?
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Scalograms in python
I am reading this paper to learning basic concepts of dsp and I want to reproduce the following scalogram of a test signal (fig 4.2 of the paper):
It has been produced from the discretization of the ...
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3D (time, scale, amplitude) plot in Continuous Wavelet Transform
I will be extremely grateful if someone could please answer this basic question.
How can one plot a 3D (translation, scale, amplitude) plot from the Continuous wavelet transform (CWT) coefficients?
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How does signal scaling affects stationary wavelet?
I'm currently working on some signals recorded with different sensors with different adc resolutions. I wonder how this different resolutions affect signal's stationary wavelet. Does it just changes ...
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Are the Daubechies 4 wavelet function and scaling function dimensionless?
If the dimension of the independent variable $x$ of $f(x)$ is length, i.e. $[x]=L$, then what is the dimension of Daubechies 4 (hereafter D4) wavelet and scaling function?
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Regarding custom wavelets and their validity
I've recently started working with wavelets, and want to focus primarily on Discrete Wavelet Transform. For experimental purposes, I use the PyWavelets library in Python. In one of my tests, I tried ...
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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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Pros/Cons to using Spectral and Diffusive Graph Wavelets
As I understand, there are two major methods of constructing wavelets on graphs. Spectral wavelets, from David K Hammond et. al, and diffusive wavelets from Coifman and Maggioni. I can't quite parse ...
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Check vanishing moment property of db4 wavelets
I am reading the book "a primer on wavelets and their scientific applications" by James S. Walker. In chapter 3, Property I on page 46 says that if a signal $f$ is linear, then the $k$-level ...
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energy normalization across different scales in case of discrete wavelet transform
In case of continuous wavelet transform (CWT), the wavelets are generated from the mother wavelet by scaling and translation. To achieve energy normalization and to ensure that all wavelets have the ...
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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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