Questions tagged [python]
Python is a high-level interpreted general programming language. Python has popular numerical and scientific libraries/packages, most notably numpy and scipy. The scipy.signal package is a powerful signal processing software collection. This tag covers the use of numpy, scipy, and other Python packages often used for SP computations.
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Why does the inverse Fourier transform return complex data?
My understanding is super basic, but as I understand it, the FFT takes in data in the time domain (amplitude over time) and returns complex data in the frequency domain (magnitude over frequency).
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Confusion about energy preservation during griffin lim phase estimation
Currently I am trying to use griffin lim algorithm to generate waveform data from magnitude spectrogram input. In general everything works fine. However, I do not fully understand the effect of ...
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Is it feasible to recover musical structure from EEG imagination data?
I am new to DSP, and I am currently working on a project whose full details I cannot disclose yet. Broadly speaking, the goal is to study the relationship between EEG signals and musical structure ...
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Interpreting EEG spectrogram artifacts: Constant horizontal bands and periodic vertical lines after filtering
I am analyzing EEG data (CHB-MIT Scalp EEG) and generating spectrograms to visualize seizure transitions. I am trying to understand specific artifacts visible in my output to ensure my preprocessing ...
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Why does Python skimage.transform.resize give different results from MATLAB imresize for the same array?
I'm trying to replicate MATLAB's imresize behavior in Python using skimage.transform.resize. Here's my test case:
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Deadlock issues with simultaneous USRP RX / TX using UHD Python API
I'm trying to set up simultaneous RX and TX using the two front-ends on a USRP B210 using the UHD Python API. This resource recommends using separate threads for RX and TX, and this one says that UHD ...
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How do I generate proper QAM-M modulated passband and save it as WAV file?
I'm new to digital signal processing and would like to know how to make a QAM-M modem that generates proper passband signal and saves it as a WAV file.
The tool should allow me to specify the carrier ...
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Why use Butterworth filter after MediaPipe smoothing (One-Euro) for pose landmarks?
I'm working on human pose estimation using MediaPipe (Pose or Face Mesh), which applies a LandmarkSmoothing filter (One-Euro style) to stabilize landmarks in real-time.
However, for offline post-...
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How to detect repeating patterns in short audio clips (≈4 seconds) using Python and machine learning?
I’m working on a machine learning project where I need to classify very short audio clips (about 4 seconds each) into two categories:
repeating song: clips that contain a repeating musical pattern.
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Help with Python assignment on signal processing
I'll try and detail as much as possible, please ask me if any info is missing in your opinions.
in this assigment i created the basic rect signal a[n] such that over the domain [-1000,1000] it's 1 ...
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Classifying audio signals in real time using python
apologies for what is maybe a silly newbie question, but my problem is I have a real-time feed of audio tones from a detector, and I want to classify them into maybe 3 or 4 buckets, eg not interested, ...
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Why FFT input has to be centered at x[0] from a algorithmic/mathematical point of view?
I am a beginner in FFT and, however, for my project, I have to process the autocovariance function and turn it into a spectral density. I am using Python for the calculations. If I center the ...
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Help with Implementation of Extended Target Tracking via EKF and inverse-Wishart updates
I am trying to implement the research paper linked here: Converted Measurements Random Matrix Approach
to Extended Target Tracking Using X-band Marine
Radar Data
I’ve managed to code the prediction ...
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No Doppler effect difference (5 Hz vs 50 Hz) on short-duration wideband fading?
I'm trying to apply Rayleigh fading (Jakes' model) to a wideband signal consisting of multiple subbands. The overall signal has a bandwidth of 250MHz, sampled at 500 MHz with a total signal length of ...
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Is my Autocorrelation Function up to Par?
I am using python to play around with my own implementation of the ACF. I am aware of how the autocorrelation function can have quantization error due to integer values of lag being used to calculate ...
