Network Card User Manual

Appendix A Gabor Expansion and Gabor Transform
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The sampled STFT is also known as the Gabor transform and is represented
by the following equation.
(A-2)
where ∆M represents the time sampling interval and N represents the total
number of frequency bins.
The ratio between N and ∆M determines the Gabor sampling rate. For
numerical stability, the Gabor sampling rate must be greater than or equal
to one. Critical sampling occurs when N = ∆M. In critical sampling, the
number of Gabor coefficients c
m,n
equals the number of original data
samples s[k]. Over sampling occurs when N/∆M > 1. For over sampling,
the number of Gabor coefficients is more than the number of original data
samples. In over sampling, the Gabor transform in Equation A-2 contains
redundancy, from a mathematical point of view. However, the redundancy
in Equation A-2 provides freedom for the selection of better window
functions, h[k] and γ[k].
Notice that the positions of the window functions h[k] and γ[k] are
interchangeable. In other words, you can use either of the window functions
as the synthesis or analysis window function. Therefore, h[k] and γ[k] are
usually referred to as dual functions.
The method of the discrete Gabor expansion developed in this appendix
requires in Equation A-2 to be a periodic sequence, as shown by the
following equation.
(A-3)
where L
s
represents the length of the signal s[k] and L
0
represents the period
of the sequence L
0
is the smallest integer that is greater than or equal
to L
s
. L
0
must be evenly divided by the time sampling interval ∆M. For a
given window h[k] that always has unit energy, you can compute the
c
mn,
s
˜
k[]γ
∗
km∆M–[]e
j2πnk– N⁄
n 0=
N 1–
∑
=
s
˜
k[]
s
˜
kiL
0
+[]
sk[] 0 kL
s
<≤
0 L
s
kL
0
<≤



=
s
˜
k[].