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### Will an Unscented Kalman Filter Be “As Good” as Other Optimization Algorithms for This Problem?

I want to calibrate a tri-axis magnetometer when a tri-axis gyroscope is also available. I am fairly certain I can solve this problem using various optimisation algorithms, but I would prefer to use ...
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### Ensemble learning, multiple classifier system

I am trying to use a MCS (Multi classifier system) to do some better work on limited data i.e become more accurate. I am using K-means clustering at the moment but may choose to go with FCM (Fuzzy c-...
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### Help in Retraining a HOG Descriptor using SVMLight

I am currently trying to count cars using OpenCV 2.4.4 with a HOG descriptor. Because a model for car detection is not available in OpenCV, I am creating my own model using SVMLight and a dataset of ...
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### What's the similarities and differences between Wigner transform and wavelet transform?

Wigner transform and continuous wavelet transform are both some kind of time-frequency representation of a signal. What are the similarities and differences between them? Could you give some ...
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### Verifying MFCC Final Result

I have created a Octave code for MFCC calculation for speech recognition, which takes a wav file as input and then gives the MFCC as the output. But the final results are a bit confusing, so I am ...
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### Design Nonlinear (Arbitrary) Phase FIR Filter using Iterative Reweighted Least Squares (IRLS)?

How would you use the MATLAB function below to create a FIR filter with a custom magnitude and phase response? It is from the Statistical Modeling and Inference MATLAB Toolbox ...
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### Attempting to use the trapezoidal rule to form a difference equation representing a circuit

I have a differential equation that has been proven to be correct. The transfer function obtained by Laplace domain analysis and Matlab freqs match up and all is well. The problem is somewhere in ...
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### Digital control: Exercise solution

Can you help me (show me how) to solve the following exercise? For the process with transfer function $G(s)=e^{-2s}/(s+1)$ design a digital controller with sampling time $T_{s} = 1$ that meets the ...
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### Extra 'fingers' found in graph after applying FFT in MATLAB

I am currently working on the FFT function in MATLAB. In this function, i require a 1024 number of data Time Domain plot and produce a 400 number of data Frequency domain plot. After applying the FFT ...
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### STFT overlap add method - What am i doing wrong?

i am trying to implement a short time fourier transform of an audio signal to do some filtering (subtract another stft signal using spectral subtraction). I am using a hamming window function with 50% ...
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### How to construct descriptors for irregularly shaped image patches

As hinted in this answer, Perceptual hashing is a way to ascribe comparable measures (hashes) to images (rectangular patches). The images do not need to be the same size, and can be slightly distorted,...
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### Relative beat detection for two audio recordings

I'm trying to synchronize (overlap) two audio recordings of the same song: a complete HQ version, and an incomplete, noisy version (phone recording for example). The noisy recording may have had its ...
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### Demodulation of noisy AFSK signal

I'm trying to implement a software audio modem with FSK to transmit and receive short digital data between two devices (e.g. a PC and an iPhone) so I'm simulating simple cases study using Scilab/...
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### Blind 1D equalization/deconvolution with some knowledge of filter kernel

Let $s_{\rm out}[n]$ be the 1D output signal of a system, $s[n]$ be the input, and $k[n,q]$ be the filter kernel for an element $n$ and for fixed value $q$. Then: $s_{\rm out}[n] = s[n] \ast k[n,q]$ ...
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### OpenCV face recognition: Finding a best match

I am working on OpenCV2.4.2 C++ interface for face recognition functionality. The face recognition feature seems to be working fine on standard databases. (AT&T, Face Recognition Data, University ...
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### How to evaluate performance of a simulated system

I have created a database (DB) of amplitde vs time delay of UWB pulses originating from various (known) points in a certain (known) "region" in a space. This DB also stores region name, since there ...
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### What is EAQUAL ? How does it relate to PEAQ?

This wiki post on wiki.hydrogenaudio.org says that it is very similar to PEAQ and also a part of ITU-R BS.1387 recommendation ? How reliable it is for determining audio quality. Are there any other ...
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### Capacity of channels with pilots?

Question is about "channel capacity" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_capacity I guess it is pretty elementary for experts, however I have not seen it discussed in e.g. Proakis book or Tse "...
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### Discrete-time model of 2-user CDMA system, recovered information at receiver using polarity detection?

I have discrete-time model of 2-user CDMA system with: $b_1=-1, b_2=+1, \alpha_1, \alpha_2, s_1, s_2$ and $n$ white noise. What are the recovered infromation bits for user 1 and user 2 respectively ...
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### Is it possible to approximate given skewness and kurtosis values using an IFFT?

I have time domain data for a signal that behaves randomly but has non-random (non-Gaussian?) skewness and kurtosis values of ~0.9 and ~7.4, respectively. The FFT of the signal shows that it's not ...
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(This is a follow up question to a previous question: link) I have implemented a flowgraph of a transceiver loopback inspired by the examples found at ...
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### NLMS algorithm for a MISO structure

I am trying to implement an NLMS algorithm for a multi-input single-output(MISO) structure. We take a reference signal x, then we made a new set of P input signals from it as follows: x_op (k) = x(k)...
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### Evaluate Fourier coefficients at arbitrary point using Python

Lets say I have a sinusoidal function $s$ that looks like ...
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I have a dataset for the function $g(t) = \int_{0}^{\infty}f(t-\tau)h(\tau)d\tau$ I would like to deconvolve. My assumptions are The signal $f(t) = 0$ before the start of observation, that is for $t &... 0answers 50 views ### Convolution of signals sampled on a logarithmic grid Is there a practical accelerated algorithm or a theoretical discrete (Fourier) transform based method to convolve discrete-time signals sampled on a logarithmic grid? What I mean is representing a ... 0answers 49 views ### Solving the PDE of a signal in an optical fiber Disclaimer Please let me know if this is not the right place to ask this question. Disclaimer Part 2 I have no background in signals. My focus is in mathematics. In my programming class, we are ... 0answers 184 views ### Input and Output SNR Calculation in AM receiver input and output For the FOM calculation of an AM receiver, the input and output signal powers are respectively, $$P_{in} = \frac{A_c^2(1 + k_a^2P_m)}{2}$$ $$P_{out} = k_a^2A_c^2P_m$$ These are obtained from the input ... 0answers 99 views ### How to implement the RLS for matrices I need to implement the RLS algorithm but it's for matrices instead for vectors, I have made the below code, but still something wrong is not working well, EDIT: The code should be done as below, ... 0answers 79 views ### Physical significance of Power spectral density of sum of correlated random processes For two processes$X(t)$and$Y(t)$, PSD of$Z(t) = X(t) + Y(t)$is$S_Z(\omega) =S_x(\omega)+ S_Y(\omega) + S_{XY}(\omega)+S_{YX}(\omega) $. If$X(t)$and$Y(t)$are orthogonal, PSD of the sum ... 0answers 32 views ### Proper way to implement a decimation I have an input signal with bandwidth 2.5 MHz. Let's say it's filtered using analog Butterworth low-pass filter. I would like to sample the signal using AD9203 10-bit 40 Msps ADC. If I understand ... 0answers 67 views ### Designing a fast linear operator with$\pm 1$entries with low condition number and low Hamming distance between consecutive rows I need to design a matrix for compressive imaging where each row represents an$N$-pixel filter in a focal plane through which light is masked, summed, and measured (think of Rice's single-pixel ... 0answers 86 views ### Synchronization of BPSK with variable-length symbols (ISO 14443) Does anyone have an idea how one would perform BPSK symbol synchronization if symbol length is allowed to vary? As dumb as that sounds, this is not a theretical question.The "Proximity" Type B NFC ... 0answers 111 views ### Multilateration of Sound in 3D Space TL:DR - How can you find the 3D coordinates of a emitter than transmits an impulse signal? STORY: I'm working on something to improve my bird-watching. I've got a camera that can take pictures of ... 0answers 81 views ### Energy Detection in Presence of Colored Gaussian Noise Before asking my question, let me introduce the context: For spectrum sensing based on energy detection, which has been widely studied in presence of AWGN, the optimal detection threshold is computed ... 0answers 56 views ### Minimum time delay that can be estimated between two sensors Consider a 1-dimensional toy problem. I have two sensors at different points along the$x$-axis. Somewhere away from the sensors, a disturbance is created which travels towards the sensors, first ... 0answers 75 views ### Interpretation of instaneous time and instaneous frequency in time-frequency plane? In this paper: Sparse time-frequency representations, Given signal$x(t)$, the time-frequency representation was got by Gabor transform and was denoted by$\chi(t,\omega)=|\chi(t,\omega)|\exp(\mathrm{...
In an academic paper I'm currently reading [1], the notion of an inner system is central. It is defined as follows A (linear) system $G$ (with $m$ inputs and $p$ outputs) is called inner if it ...