Questions tagged [distortion]
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Does clipping distortion affect the information contained within a frequency-modulated signal?
Suppose we start with a baseband analog signal, and we turn it into a frequency-modulated signal. Then, the signal is put through a comparator, and gets turned into a binary signal (high or low), with ...
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Optimalty of Gaussian Information Bottleneck under linear transformations
I have a question regarding the solution of the Information Bottleneck (IB) method in the Gaussian setting. Suppose $(X, Y)$ is a pair of random variables jointly distributed according to a ...
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Phase distortion in discretized second order filter using Tustin/Bilinear method in state space form
I have a second order lowpass filter in continuous state space form: $$\dot{x}=Ax+Bu$$ $$y=Cx+Du$$ $$ A = \begin{pmatrix}% 0 & 1 \\% -\omega_N^2 & -2\zeta\omega_N% \end{pmatrix}% ;B= ...
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Automatic detection of PCM sample errors?
I was upsampling a track from 44.1/16 to 88.2/24 and it clipped at one spot. Looking at this sample in the original file reveals an evident PCM error - the sample sign is reversed. As a result, the ...
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What is the source of Distortion in my signal (square wave)?
I'm writing an audio synthesizer in C, but I've encountered audio distortion that I can't remove. In order to isolate the problem, I've removed most of my code except the following snippet: ...
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Modelling of Amplifiers with Nonlinear Black-Box Models
I am trying to model the behavior of an audio amplifier through the Parallel Wiener-Hammerstein (PWH) black-box model that can approximate very well a wide range of nonlinear systems. I performed the ...
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Correct geometrical distortions from camera
I have video recordings of a behavioral experiment on mice. The camera is rigidly attached to the ceiling. Below the camera is a round table with round holes. Unfortunately, the camera is not strictly ...
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What measures are used to identify a faulty speaker?
I'm working on building a mobile app that would play a sound via speaker, record itself and process this recording to identify faults within speakers, what meastures or parameters should be considered ...
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Can a bad quality sound be measured via THD?
I'm trying to create an app that measures the audio quality, this is ideally to filter out blown out or cracking speaker who has different types of distortions, what would be the best measurement ...
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Constraints in Dynamic Time Warping for Speech
The Dynamic time warping is applied for time normalization. As shown in the diagram, two different signals with $Tx$ and $Ty$ time instants, are time-normalized to have $T$ time instants. $\phi$ is ...
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What exactly is transmitted in the channel in lossy compression?
Consider the problem of lossily compressing a memoryless binary source $X \sim \operatorname{Bernoulli}\left(\frac{1}{2}\right)$ at target Hamming distortion $D < \frac{1}{2}$. According to the ...
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Distortion-Rate function for standard Gaussian signals quantized with a uniform alphabet
Let's say $X \sim N(0, 1)$ is a standard Gaussian input signal and $Y \sim U\{y_1, y_2, \cdots, y_{16}\}$ follows a discrete uniform distribution (in fact, $\{y_1, y_2, \cdots, y_{16}\}$ is a ...
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What kind of distortion effect is this?
Here is the image of a plugin distortion I have applied to a sine wave. The sound characteristic is heavily distorted and digital but still good sounding bass wave. Any ideas what kind of distortion ...
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Is this a noise or what? (Sinusoidal signal frozen for a short time)
I am studying a pair of AC signals for voltage and current. In a long run, I found a distortion happening as shown in the attached picture. I want to understand what could possibly have happened in ...
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Calculating THD vs. Frequency of an Acoustic System using the Exponential Swept Sine Method
I am working on analyzing the total harmonic distortion (THD) vs. frequency curve for an acoustic system. I am aware of the traditional method of exciting the system with a mono-frequency wave and ...