Unanswered Questions
3,456 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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When does the laugh track kick in?
One of my weekend projects has brought me into the deep waters of signal processing. As with all my code projects that require some heavy-duty math, I'm more than happy to tinker my way to a solution ...
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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 is the normalization factor for the quincunx lattice wavelet transform, and how do you find it?
On pages 57-60 (preview was available last I checked, images here in case), there is a quincunx lattice transform described.
Lattice:
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1answer
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Discrete Wavelet Transform - Visualizing Relation between Decomposed Detail Coefficients and Signal
I'm trying to directly visualize the relation between discrete wavelet transform (DWT) detail coefficients and the original signal/its reconstruction. The goal is to show their relation in an ...
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First order low pass filter
I am trying to better understand the first-order low pass filter:
Summary:
Per wikipedia, a first order low pass filter yields the following in discrete time:
$$
\frac{Y(s)}{U(s)}= \frac{\omega_{c}}...
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2answers
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Efficient calculation of correlation function every $N^{\rm th}$ point
I would like to calculate a long correlation function of length say, 1e6 points.
I have a prior knowledge that the correlation peak will be in point k*1000.
Is there an efficient way to apply this ...
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1answer
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Analytical Expression for Convolution of Two 2D DFTs
I am trying to do an image analysis problem on some images, and I want to calculate some things in the frequency domain which are giving me problems. Say I have an (discrete) image $I(x,y)$ of size $...
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Calculating the SNR of a blurred image
I have a blurred and noisy image $X$, I want to apply the Wiener filter on it and get a deblurred and denoised image $Y$ (i.e apply inverse of blurring filter while at the same time reducing some ...
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What's the similarities and differences between Wigner transform and wavelet transform?
Wigner transform and continuous wavelet transform are both some kind of time-frequency representation of a signal. What are the similarities and differences between them? Could you give some ...
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EWMA based differential that is strictly positive on strictly increasing irregular time series?
Let's say I have a time series $ \{t_i, x_i\} $ where the $x_i$ are strictly increasing and the $t_i$ are not regularly spaced. I can define a differential operator as
$$ \Delta_i = \frac{x_i-x_{i-1}...
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Regarding the choice of cost function in adaptive control - squared error vs absolute error
I did search the question database regarding this question, and although one or two questions came close, they didn't really address my specific question.
In adaptive control based on minimizing ...
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How to choose a windowing function when performing a Chirp $\mathcal Z$-transform?
I've got some data sampled at 32 Hz. The only interesting stuff is happening between about 0-8 Hz and I've got to do real time batch processing and detect events with a delay of no more than a second. ...
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Converting very short “motionless” video frames to single, better-resolved, images
I made a mistake with my newly bought compact camera, before a trip to Japan. Instead of taking single pictures, I ended up with a few short "MP4" video files (1 second, 2-3 frames). I could "easily ...
