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$μ$-law: What operation is being performed in the $μ|x|$ portion of the algorithm?

According to wikipedia $\mu$-law is: $$F(x) = \operatorname{sgn}(x)\frac{\ln(1+\mu|x|)}{\ln(1+\mu)} \qquad -1\le x \le 1$$ where $μ = 255$ ($8$ bits) in the North American and Japanese standards (This is a signal processing algorithm). What…
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Frequency Swept sine wave -- chirp

I am experiencing what I think is really simple confusion. Take $y(t) = \sin(2 \cdot \pi \cdot t \cdot\omega(t))$ and $\omega(t) = a \cdot t+b$ for $t \in [0,p)$ and let $\omega(t)$ have a periodic extension with period $p$. The values $a,b,p$ are…
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Specific question about downsampling in frequency domain

I'm confused about why Equation 4.74 can be expressed as Equation 4.76 after the summation index is expressed as in Equation 4.75. Could somebody please explain? Thanks! Downsampling DTFT
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Extracting a Cosine Function from a Linear Combination of Cosines

I have a frequency modulated signal which must contain only $ g(t)=B.\cos(\omega(t).t+\phi)$, but it gets the form as below $$ f(t)=B.\cos(\omega(t).t+\phi)+A_1.\cos(\omega(t-t_1).t+\phi_1)+A_2.\cos(\omega(t-t_2).t+\phi_2)+...$$ where $$A_k<
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ICA obsession with gaussianity

There are two reasons to focus on "gaussianity". (1) Orthogonal transformations of gaussian distributions are again gaussian. (2) Mixing of signals tends to a gaussian distribution via Central Limit Theorem. The latter is very good reason, but I…
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wave separation

Say there is a wave of sines and cosines. (<- one can think of Fourier theory.) A) There is a wave that has the same frequency all the time. However, amplitude (- shape) of each period differs. Is it possible to separate this wave into combinations…
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Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem shannon's proof

In Wikipedia, there is Shannon's proof on Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist%E2%80%93Shannon_sampling_theorem#Shannon.27s_original_proof ) The original proof presented by Shannon is elegant and quite brief, but…
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How to derive FWHM of sinc function

So this is probably a simple question, but I am unable to get my head around it. If we have $\operatorname{sinc}(2 \pi v L)$, what is the width of that $\operatorname{sinc}$ in terms of $v$ at half the maximum point. Normally I'd just say that the…
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Is this solution correct? [Discrete-time signals and systems]

Consider this question taken from Oppenheim - Discrete-time Signal and Systems: Now consider its solution (from the Solutions manual) My question is: is the solution for itens (a) and (b) valid? It considers a sequence with only one sample in both…
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Detection theory - Sensitivity, Specificity - in Multi-Detection scenario

I am working in computer vision and have this scenario: For each frame of a video sequence I have the following: Image with a resolution of width * height discrete pixel locations. List of "detections" (e.g. from HaarCascadeClassifier)…
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Show that for a real impulse response function the response to a sine input is ...

Working on this problem on linear invariant systems in signal processing, but unsure if I've got the right answer: Show that for a real impulse response function of $H(\omega)$, the response to a sine input of $\sin(\omega_0 t)$ is the imaginary…
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Cross-talk filter with known source

Hello fellow Stackers, This question was also posted on StackOverflow, but perhaps this is a more suitable location for this question. I currently work in an experimental rock mechanics lab, and when I conduct an experiment, I record the output…
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I want to know whether the following is periodic or not periodic

I have a question about system properties of the following function whether it is periodic or aperiodic. With an insight, I'd determine the function is aperiodic since the unit-step term looks implying that jump discontinuities occur at odd number…
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Hilbert transform pair

We know the Hilbert transform is defined as: $$ y(t)=\mathcal{H}(x(t))=\operatorname{P.V.}\ \left\{x(t)*\frac{1}{\pi t}\right\} $$ In the frequency domain this is equivalent to: $$ Y(f)=X(f)\times (-j\operatorname{sgn}(f)) $$ Using this twice, we…
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use wavelet transform to analyze signal

let us suppose that we have following signal function [ x ] = generate1(N,m,A3) f1 = 100; f2 = 200; T = 1./f1; t = (0:(N*T/m):(N*T))'; %' wn = randn(length(t),1); %zero mean variance 1 x = 20.*sin(2.*pi.*f1.*t) + 30.*cos(2.*pi.*f2.*t) +…
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