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Time Frequency Analysis Tools User Manual
Time Frequency Analysis Tools User Manual
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Contents
About This Manual
Conventions ...................................................................................................................ix
Related Documentation..................................................................................................x
Chapter 1
Introduction to Time-Frequency Analysis
Common Time-Frequency Analysis Applications ........................................................1-4
Overview of Time Frequency Analysis Tools...............................................................1-5
Finding Example VIs.......................................................................................1-6
Related Signal Processing Tools....................................................................................1-6
Chapter 2
Understanding Linear Time-Frequency Analysis Methods
Short-Time Fourier Transform ......................................................................................2-2
Window Type and Window Length ................................................................2-3
Discrete Gabor Transform and Expansion.....................................................................2-4
Adaptive Transform and Expansion ..............................................................................2-7
Comparing Linear Time-Frequency Analysis Methods ................................................2-13
Chapter 3
Understanding Quadratic Time-Frequency Analysis Methods
STFT Spectrogram.........................................................................................................3-2
Reassignment Method .....................................................................................3-6
Wigner-Ville Distribution..............................................................................................3-7
Other Cohen’s Class Time-Frequency Distributions.....................................................3-10
Choi-Williams Distribution .............................................................................3-11
Cone-Shaped Distribution ...............................................................................3-13
Gabor Spectrogram ........................................................................................................3-14
Adaptive Spectrogram ...................................................................................................3-20
Spectrogram Feature Extraction ....................................................................................3-22
Mean Instantaneous Frequency .......................................................................3-23
Mean Instantaneous Bandwidth ......................................................................3-23
Group Delay ....................................................................................................3-23
Marginal Integration........................................................................................3-24
Creating Quadratic Time-Frequency Analysis Applications.........................................3-24
Comparing Quadratic Time-Frequency Analysis Methods ...........................................3-25
Calculating the Energy of a Signal at Each Time-Frequency Instant............................3-27
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About This Manual
This manual contains a brief introduction to time-frequency analysis,
includes information about linear and quadratic methods of time-frequency
analysis, and describes how to develop typical applications by using the
LabVIEW Time Frequency Analysis Tools.
This manual requires that you have a basic understanding of the LabVIEW
environment. If you are unfamiliar with LabVIEW, refer to the Getting
Started with LabVIEW manual before reading this manual.
Note This manual is not intended to provide a comprehensive discussion of
time-frequency analysis. Refer to Introduction to Time-Frequency and Wavelet
Transforms1 for more information about time-frequency analysis.
Conventions
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1 Qian, Shie. Introduction to Time-Frequency and Wavelet Transforms. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall PTR,
2001.
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Related Documentation
The following documents contain information that you may find helpful as
you read this manual:
•
LabVIEW Help, available by selecting Help»Search the LabVIEW
Help
Getting Started with LabVIEW, available by selecting Start»
All Programs»National Instruments»LabVIEW x.x»
LabVIEW Manuals, where x.x is the version of LabVIEW you
installed, and opening LV_Getting_Started.pdf. This manual also
is available by navigating to the labview\manuals directory and
opening LV_Getting_Started.pdf. The LabVIEW Help includes
all the content in this manual.
LabVIEW Fundamentals, available by selecting Start»All Programs»
National Instruments»LabVIEW x.x»LabVIEW Manuals, where
x.x is the version of LabVIEW you installed, and opening
LV_Fundamentals.pdf. This manual also is available by navigating
to the labview\manuals directory and opening
LV_Fundamentals.pdf. The LabVIEW Help includes all the content
in this manual.
Note The following resource offers useful background information on the general
concepts discussed in this documentation. This resource is provided for general
informational purposes only and is not affiliated, sponsored, or endorsed by National
Instruments. The content of this resource is not a representation of, may not correspond to,
and does not imply current or future functionality in the Time Series Analysis Tools or any
other National Instruments product.
Qian, Shie. Introduction to Time-Frequency and Wavelet Transforms.
Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall PTR, 2001.
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Introduction to Time-Frequency
Analysis
1
One way to represent a signal is the time-domain waveform, which shows
how the amplitude of the signal changes over time. Examples of
time-varying signals include the temperature in temperature logs,
stock-index profiles, electrocardiogram signals, vibration signals, and
speech signals, such as the speech signal in Figure 1-1.
Figure 1-1. Speech Signal
The time-domain speech waveform in Figure 1-1 depicts how the
sound-pressure level evolves over time. The higher the sound-pressure level
at any particular time, the larger the magnitude, or the absolute value, of the
signal.
An important task in most speech-enhancement applications is to find the
noise characteristics and then remove the noise from the speech signal. In
Figure 1-1, the period from 1.4 s to 2.0 s is the silence period, when no
speech is present. Any signal measured during this time frame is noise. In
speech-enhancement applications, you often observe the signal during the
silence periods to estimate the noise characteristics.
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