The exponential in $R^d$, II

Wednesday, November 15. 2006

The exponential in $R^d$, II

(Q15) I’m gonna show you some cool Gabor atoms on $\bbR^2$ . First, the function $u_\omega(x):=e^{\pi\i\langle x,\omega\rangle}$ , as described previously, indeed looks like this:

[xx yy] = meshgrid(linspace(-2,2,100)); v=[1 1.5]; e1 = exp(pi*i*( v(1)*xx + v(2)*yy )); imagesc(real(e1)) w=[-1 4]; e2 = exp(pi*i*( w(1)*xx + w(2)*yy )); imagesc(real(e2))

See how the value of the frequency changes with the length of $\omega$ , and the direction with the orientation of $\omega$ , just as described previously.
In the STFT, these frequencies get reduced locally by an “envelope function”. One could take the Gaussian window $e^{-a^2x^2}$ to achieve this:

g1 = exp(-(xx.^2+yy.^2)); imagesc(g1) g2 = exp(-4*(xx.^2+yy.^2)); imagesc(g2)

And now these are the modulated Gaussians, whose set of translates across $\bbR^2$ forms the building blocks for Gabor analysis on $\bbR^2$ :

imagesc(real(g1.*e1)) imagesc(real(g2.*e2))

Posted by Stephan Paukner in Master's Thesis at 18:15 | Comments (0) | Trackback (1)

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