Questions tagged [signal-processing]
Numerical analysis of a digitized signal
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Recovering a distribution after Gaussian noise is added
I have a large dataset (400k rows) in which I suspect the data has been obfuscated by the addition of a Gaussian distribution. My guess is that some of the data had categorical variables (based on the ...
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Demonstrate the mean of the sample variance
Let's suposse I have a vector of elements $x(n) = \{x(1), x(2), \cdots ,x(N-1)\}$ from a random process X of mean $\mu_x$ and variance $\sigma_x^2$. I want to see if I can stimate the mean and ...
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How to use GMMs for acoustic signal classification?
There are a number of applications of the Gaussian Mixture Model (GMMs) to acoustics/audio data for the purposes of classification; ex paper1 and ex paper2. GMMs ...
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Degree of freedom of estimated sotuioin to the total variation problem from the ADMM algorithm
The study of the total variation problem is to solve the following problem:
$$
\text{minimize} ~ \frac{1}{2}||x - b||_2^2 + \lambda * \sum_i^N |x_{i+1} - x_i|
$$
where $x$ is the unknown, $b$ in $R^...
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Find roots of regression function
Physical problem: Signal data comes from several sensors (e.g. 4) and there is empirical knowledge, that data of one of them (e.g. "productivity") depends on other data. Signals of other sensors could ...
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Detection of music note sequence in audio signal
I have an audio signal which contains the combination of different western music notes(I know this combination in advance) and I want to identify the sequence of the music notes present in it. For ...
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How to perform signal denoising from corrupted data
In sensors, the data collected is always noisy. I want to denoise the data using machine learning methods. As per my understanding, the output of the trained algorithm should be the clean signal and ...
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What is matching pursuit algorithm?
I would like to know What is matching pursuit algorithm?
I did search via different sources but no understandable explanation is available!
Can anyone help with this, please?
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Roughness of time series or physical measurements
I am facing regularly the same issue regarding the stability of my physical measurements. How stable is my equipment? How noisy is my signal?
For example, I apply a current on a resistor and want to ...
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Additional Property of Singular Value Decomposition
I am new to SVD so forgive me if the question is trivial. Following is my question. If I have two sets of linear equations,
Y1 = T1.X
Y2 = T2.X
where T1 and T2 are mxn rectangular matrices. Now let'...
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Significance testing of signal-to-noise ratio
I have three 18-second, 32-channel resting state EEG time series sampled at 500 Hz using dry EEG electrodes (condition 1) and three more 18-second, 32-channel resting state EEGs also sampled at 500 Hz ...
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Matching Pursuit & Boosting: Exponential Convergence?
In the paper by Bühlmann BOOSTING FOR HIGH-DIMENSIONAL LINEAR MODELS, he introduces an algorithm, called componentwise linear least squares, and relates it to the Matching Pursuit algorithm by Mallat &...
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Eigenvalue decomposition/SVD and the filtering perspective
I have been studying the SVD algorithm recently and I can understand how it might be used for compression but I am trying to figure out if there is a perspective of SVD where it can be seen as a low ...
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Estimate Convolution Filter Formula from Noisy Input and Output
When I learned signal processing, I learned how to calculate the output with given input and given convolution filter. However, if now I have the noisy input and output, assuming the system is linear ...
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Is there a concept of weakly periodic in stats? If so, what is it called?
Ok, say we have a signal that reoccurs within every T+x time where T is a constant and x is a random number small in size compared to T. We know that a function is actually periodic if F(x) = F(x+T), ...
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Comparing PCA representations between low-pass and high-pass filtered time-series data
I am currently trying to reduce the number of variables I input into a vector autoregressive (VAR) model. For those that don't already know, VAR models are used on time-series data. My primary concern ...
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Developing algortihm/model to identify thin linear features in aerial imagery [closed]
I am exploring the possibility of identifying fencelines from NAIP aerial imagery (GSD = 0.6m). I have tried some basic processing in OpenCV using canny edge detection that was detailed in a question ...
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Verifying Time Warp
Time warp has been widely assumed in domain of speech processing. If $Xw(t)$ represents a time warped version of $X(t)$, then $Xw(t) = X(t-w(t))$ where $w(t)$ is an arbitrary function with a banded ...
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How to find the frequency at which loudness levels are varying the most?
I have a dataset consisting of loudness level readings of the sound produced at a national highway, taken on a per second basis at different frequencies(20Hz to 10,000Hz). I have to find out the ...
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Does mutual information capture interactions?
Suppose I have a response $Y$ and two features, $X$ and $Z$. Individually the features are not very predictive but their interaction is strongly predictive. Something like
$$Y = 0.5X + 0.5Z + 20XZ + \...
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Filtering out bursts with a consistent range from a time series
I have time series of bursts that look like this:
… and zoomed in:
Now, there are also spurious bursts (which I call noise) in the data, which look like this:
… and zoomed in:
As you can see, the ...
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When doing feature selection based on mutual information, should it be normalized?
Are any kind of normalizations useful when using mutual information to select features?
The Wikipedia page has a few variants but they don't seem helpful. The entropy of the response is a constant ...
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Usage of Hidden Markov Models
I have a set of questions regarding how HMMs are used.
Context: there is a stream of real numbers or real number vectors (e.g. data from a phone accelerometer) and the goal is to detect that an ...
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covariance matrix vs correlation matrix for multiple signal analysis
I'm dealing with a set of +100 input signals, and one output. I want to explore how each of the signals affects the output.
Should I focus on covariance matrix, or correlation matrix, and why?
I ...
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Spatial Transformer Networks and Data Augmentation
The famous Deep Mind paper STN allows for input data transformation, as seen in https://pytorch.org/tutorials/intermediate/spatial_transformer_tutorial.html does not apply input transformation to the ...
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Group model from subject level model
I have several subjects in an experiment, for each I have several samples (~50) for reach subject of some physiological high dimensional signal (d=70) which I want to classify to
2-3 classes.
When ...
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Is (1 - Coherence) a metric, at a given frequency?
I'm performing some signal analysis and was using coherence (magnitude-squared coherence) to inference signals similarity. Now, I need to extend the framework by introducing a metric.
I was wondering,...
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What is the differennce between invariance to translation, covariance to translation and equivariance to translation?
I get stuck at understanding the difference between invariance to translation, covariance to translation and equivariance to translation in the context of of convolutional neural network.
What does ...
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What features are suitable when predicting user preferences for songs?
I have a data set consisting of 1240 audio files (30 seconds each) and a file like this (two first rows):
u v decision
1 323 0
12 9 1
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Features for multi-channel time series classification
I am quite confused about extracting features of the multichannel signals and wonder if anyone can help me out.
I want to get a feature set where feature is related to time, but I found the only way ...
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Is Spearman's rank and RMS error an appropriate measure of similarity between two signals?
I am working on a project comparing the accuracy of two imaging techniques to measure displacement. I have attached a graph comparing the displacement measured by both techniques over time.
I am ...
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Time Series Classification with Varying Sampling Frequency
I'm new to signal processing and am wondering how to deal with a time-series classification problem when I have unequally spaced data.
Skimming through recent literature, including The great time ...
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How to combine multiple signal data in my ML model?
I'm doing a task where I need to work with healthcare data from a few different sources. For example, one is an audio signal recording while another is biometric signal reading such as ECG.
Both of ...
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Time alignment of two signal with same length
I have found information about similar topics, but wasn´t useful for me.
I have the next 2 signals registered by a laser profilometer.
As can be seen in the picture the signals are almost equals but ...
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Clustering of an image sequence of a moving object
I have a set of 100 images of a man moving on the street. I remove the background and try to cluster the man using dbscan in each image seperately. Instead of getting one cluster (for the man), I get ...
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Intervention/Level Shift detection
I don't really know if this problem can be considered as an intervention detection/analysis problem. The data shown below is actually a sensor signal collected from an air booster. The air booster has ...
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How can I get the cumulant expression from the recursive relation between cumulant and moment?
I am reading some paper about high-order statistics https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11004-009-9258-9?LI=true. The paper gives two recursive expressions relating the multivariate cumulants ...
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estimating weights in lattice recursive least squares (LRLS)
I'm struggling to estimate the weights (W) from the forward and backward prediction coefficients (k) in Lattice recursive least squares (Lattice-RLS). The standard recursive least squares (RLS) ...
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Time series data - A metric to quantify a signal's intensity frequency and duration
I have an time series data with an appearance of a headache events over time.
Each headache is characterized with intensity (1-5) and duration (in seconds).
Therefore, the signal is represented in ...
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Calculating heartbeats per minute from a .wav file [closed]
I am working on a machine learning project relating to heart-Arrhythmia's.
I want to be able to calculate heart beats per minute from a 30 second wav file as input. I am creating a mel-spectrogram ...
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Denoising technique for signal with beforehand known shape (linear and exponential)
I have a noisy signal which is linear and then exponential. I know the type (Gaussian additive noise) and degree (0.01) of noise. Part of the challenge is determining when the signal changed from ...
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ICA, how to check for Gaussian components?
Independent Component Analysis (ICA) requires that at most one of the additive subcomponents of a multivariate signal is Gaussian. If I do not know the distributions of the subcomponents, how do I ...
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Finding out frequency of peaks using the Fourier transform
I have a signal that varies in time as shown below. I have just shown a 5 s interval of data (from 97 s to 102 s). The sampling frequency is 1000 Hz.
My goal is to find out the frequency of the ...
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Autocorrelation Exponential Decay Rate for feature selection
I have signals of a time series of length 50.
I want to give a try to a PCA like method for classification extracting features from the signal. I am considering several summary descriptors (e.g, mean, ...
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How to estimate cutoff point for continuous varibles and binary output?
I have a simulated dataset comprising signals (binary) and a set of continuous inputs. When the continuous var goes up over than a threshold, the system is switched on, which means that the signal ...
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Why is phase reconstruction considered hard
I am studying deep learning models for single channel speech separation.
I come across several recent methods:
Permutation Invariant Training
Deep Clustering
Deep Attractor Network
All of these ...
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Kurtosis to detect non-random signals in a spectrum
I have a spectrum that was created from a time series using the FFT. The spectrum has several man-made "channels" in it; some of these are one-bin wide, some are several adjacent bins wide (larger ...
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Digital Signal Processing DSP Overview support documents
Well, I couldn't find better expression to say what I want :(
I'm looking for a DSP study source, that doesn't dive too deep, and covers "all" or most of DSP topics, I just want to have an overview ...
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For two stochastic process $x_t$, $y_t$, how can the cross-covariance function between $x_t$ and $y_t$ at lag k different from that at lag -k?
For two stochastic process $x_t$, $y_t$, how can the cross-covariance function between $x_t$ and $y_t$ at lag k different from that at lag -k?
For some reason, I can't scrape my head around this. ...
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Signal to Noise Ratio of a train of pulses
My signal was a train of rectangular pulses consisted of eight pulses with interval between pulses of 36 s with a temporal resolution of 0.1 s. I added a Gaussian noise oscillations with zero mean and ...
