# All Questions

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### Reliability of normalized cross-correlation with high lags

Say you have two signals with 100 data points in each signal. Then there are 20 time lags where the computation of the normalized cross-correlation between those signals only considers 10 or less ...
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### Intercepting a Bluetooth Signal

Hello fellow Stack exchange doods. I am but a humble teen who is currently suffering cause at lunch these "gangsters" blast their rap music really loudly in the cafeteria and I get mucho annoyed. So ...
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### Spectrogram power/magnitude normalization in analogy with image intensity normalization

In analogy with the 8-bit grayscale image color depth, in which the intensity of a sample pixel is normalized to a value between 0 and 255 by taking into account the minimum and maximum intensities ...
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### Extract same in phase signal from 3 different sources with shared delayed noise?

If I have 3 signals coming from 3 microphones with noise $n$ delayed like this: $S_1(t) = x(t) + n(t+\phi_1)$ $S_2(t) = x(t) + n(t+\phi_2)$ $S_3(t) = x(t) + n(t+\phi_3)$ Their shared feature $x(t)$...
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### How to warp a pixel patch to another camera

I have two cameras with rotation and translation starting from the world origin and a patch in the first camera's reference coordinate system. I want to warp this patch into the second camera's ...
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### Correlating a sequence or a code with itself at QPSK symbol rate

I am sending a QPSK signal that represents a certain sequence or code and that needs to be correlated with itself on the receiver (there are other sequences/codes in the system, and they are all ...
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### rate 1/128 channel code for 5 bits of information

I need to construct channel code for 5 bits of information for a wireless channel. Possible code rate could be as low as 1/128 (very reliable). At decoder I assume to use channel LLRs as decoder input ...
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### Is tanx(t) stable?

I am highly confused about the stability of tanx(t). If we provide a bounded input such as x[t]=u[t], the output is bounded I have confusion about stable Is the function BIBO stable and also is it ...
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### Interpreting the FFT results of a structural vibration problem

System: Cantilever beam type models, with an accelerometer on the end. The beam base is excited at various frequencies in harmonic fashion on a shake table. This results in vibration in the beam. The ...
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### Real world application of signal sparsity?

There are theories based on signal sparsity in frequency domain like Compressive Sensing, Sparse FFT, etc. Throughout searching and studying papers I found out Cognitive Radio is a good example of ...
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### Python - Normalized cross-correlation to measure similarites in 2 images

I'm trying to measure per-pixel similarities in two images (same array shape and type) using Python. In many scientific papers (like this one), normalized cross-correlation is used. Here's an image ...
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### confused in using modulation technique

I am given a question in which I have to draw the spectrum of the signal $m(t)$ and then draw the spectrum of this modulated signal. The signal is $$m(t)=\cos(1000\pi t)$$ Now in solution manual ...
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### 1/3 Octave Analysis

Good Morning! I am new in signal processing and I am trying to do a work in noise control of an electronic steering lock device (ESL). My aim is to calculate the loudness (Zwicker Method- ISO 532 B) ...
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### How do I interpret the Wavelet scattering transform frequency plane and tree diagrams?

I've been reading through this paper on "Invariant Scattering Convolution Networks" and am having a difficult time interpreting the tree diagrams and frequency plane diagrams shown respectively below. ...
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### What is the interpretation of Fourier Transform containing only imaginary part?

The FT of a unit step function is taken as: $$X(\omega) = \int_0^\infty e^{-j\omega t}dt = \frac{-1}{jw}e^{-j\omega t} \Biggr |_{0}^{\infty} = \frac{j}{\omega}$$ The transform only has the ...
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### How can one know the polynome equation based on the output of a system?

I came across this situation in my textbook: However I have no clue about how you can (starting from the stepresponse on the left), get the polynome equation on the right. Could someone please ...
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### How to choose the right segment length for a given signal?

Im working on plotting the power spectral density of a random time series measured. I know the target spectrum.The idea is check the measurement vis-a-vis the target spectrum. However, I get slightly ...
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### PLL carrier recovery: intermediate versus baseband

When looking at carrier recovery, a PLL is often applied to correct the frequency offset between the local oscillator and the transmitter after down conversion. I'm wondering what happens to the PLL ...
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### Ambiguity in the IFFT process in OFDM

I am still trying to iron out some ambiguities in my understanding of the IFFT component of OFDM modulation schemes. So here we have a QAM symbol $s_0$ being multiplied with the subcarrier for that ...
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### Why is the ROC of Laplace transform independent of imaginary part of s?

An integral is defined as converging if it yields a finite value upon application of limits of integration. It is divergent otherwise. Now sticking to the mathematical notation of Laplace transform, ...
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### What is the name of this filter?

I am having this simple function which acts on two state variable $s_t$ (states being $\{0,1\}$, boolean in sense), and I am evaluating it in discrete time steps. The function is $f_t=1$ if $s_t$ has ...
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### How Does Mean Centering Affect the Result of Using SVD to Compress Images?

I have been learning about using the Singular Value Decomposition to find low rank approximations to matrices. I had an image which I converted to a matrix. I regarded each row of the matrix as a '...
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### How to save a specific frequency range as a wave file?

When I use the bandpass filter on an audio file to retain, say, all frequencies between 1300-1400 Hz only, I end up with an audio spectrogram showing this bit and all the rest as black. Exactly as I ...
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### Binarization, and then thinning/skeletonization

I have pictures of networks, like the one below, and my goal is to obtain the network's skeleton from processing those images. My approach lies in two steps, first I convert grayscale image to binary ...
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### Maximum likelihood estimation complexity computation

I have a basic question about maximum likelihood (ML) estimator and its implementation. I am trying to simulate a communication system, while using ML at the receiver side to find the transmit ...
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### Finding Signals when the baseline varies greatly by signal set

I have milliwatt consumption data from home appliances. I'm collecting this data in hundreds of households. Based on the machine model, the baseline value for a given household can vary from 0 to ...
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### Do Fourier frequencies actually exist in real life in form of “instantaneous frequency”?

For me, this is a very awkward question to be asked, as at this point in my studies I'm supposed to be quite expert with elementary mathematical tools like Fourier transforms, but this has always ...
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### How do I perform Spectral Analysis (FFT, Windowing, Detrending) on Sonic Anemometer Data?

I am having trouble with all of the forums that I have looked at thus far. I have one day's worth of Sonic Anemometer data. I want to see the spectral analysis of this data. When the anemometer data ...
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### (python+opencv) haar cascade training using cloud computing

I will train my own cascade, using python and opencv. I want it to be as precise as possible, so as I read it is common that training takes one or two weeks to compile. I want to use cloud computing ...
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### How to match resolution of two or more signals

I have received the following 4 time-series signals and wanted to do some data analytics using these. Although the sampling is the same for all of these signals, 2 samples per second, problem is that ...
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### autoregressive moving average code implementation

I am new to DSP and i am trying to take a wav (human speech) file and apply ARMA filter and plot its PSD graph in python. I see that there are a lot of AR implementations but almost none ARMA. I ...
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### Calculating noise floor of digitization system using FFT

I am trying to calculate self noise of a digitization system with differential inputs.For this purpose, i select a differential channel, set input range to +/-5 V, short both differential inputs and ...
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### Computing the Power Spectrum Density (PSD) on a CSV File in Python

im quit new with signal processing and im trying to calculate the PSD of a signal im sampling. the signal is an output of a DC buck converter this is the code im using and this is the plot im getting ...
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### Implementing an analog approximation of an FIR filter given its impulse response

Problem: I have the impulse response of a matched filter(therefore its phase and magnitude response. See figure below) of a filter, and I need to implement its response using only off-the-shelf ...