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The DFT and the DTFT
It's finally time to start looking at the relationship between the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) and the...

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Aliasing and a sampled cosine signal
One challenge of teaching Fourier transform concepts is that each concept can be (and is) interpreted and explained in...

16 years ago

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Aliasing and the discrete-time Fourier transform
Many of you were onto me immediately last week. I asked you to estimate the frequency of the sampled cosine signal...

16 years ago

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Sampling a cosine
I know, I know ... I've really fallen behind in my blog posting the last month or so. Shifting responsibilities in my...

16 years ago

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Updates on old business: upslope area and unit testing
A couple of papers have been published recently that are related to some of my old blog topics. Almost exactly a...

16 years ago

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Relationship between continuous-time and discrete-time Fourier transforms
Previously in my Fourier transforms series I've talked about the continuous-time Fourier transform and the...

16 years ago

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About the unused-argument syntax in R2009b
Last fall Loren wrote a blog post about a new syntax in R2009b for ignoring function inputs or function outputs. For...

16 years ago

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In my mailbox this week: MCALab, astronomy, dmperm, and Sudoku
Some interesting IEEE articles arrived in my mailbox this week. Computing in Science and Engineering has "MCALab:...

16 years ago

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Discrete-time Fourier transform (DTFT)
In the last two posts in my Fourier transform series I discussed the continuous-time Fourier transform. Today I want to...

16 years ago

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Image Enhancement: A Medley
Can I post two silly-season items in one day? Hey, it's my blog, so why not! One of my posts that received the most...

16 years ago

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A very different take on the Fourier transform
This is my silly season entry (from...

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Continuous-time Fourier transform of windowed cosine
Last week I showed a couple of continuous-time Fourier transform pairs (for a cosine and a rectangular pulse). Today I...

16 years ago

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Continuous-time Fourier transform basics
In my planned (well, partially planned) discussion on Fourier transforms, I'll focus on three of the four types I...

16 years ago

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Example of Fourier terminology confusion
This exchange of comments between Cris and me (see comments 11-16) is a good example of the kind of terminology confusion...

16 years ago

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Fourier transform visualization using windowing
When I dipped my toe into the Fourier transform waters last week, the resulting comments and e-mail indicated there is...

16 years ago

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Fourier transforms
Confession time. When it comes to writing about Fourier transforms on this blog, I'm a chicken. (For my readers not...

16 years ago

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Extracting dot locations from a graphic
I was looking at the image below on a web page recently and I decided to extract the locations of all the dots. I...

16 years ago

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Maybe truecolor is OK after all
Yesterday I posted that I was looking for a replacement for the term truecolor. (I won't repeat the explanation here;...

16 years ago

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I’m looking for a replacement for “truecolor”
The Image Processing Toolbox has terminology conventions for four different image types: Binary...

16 years ago

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Writing TIFF files with given width and resolution
I received the following question recently: I'd like to be able to establish an image size that will be recognized...

16 years ago

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The conv function and implementation tradeoffs
A friend from my grad school days (back in the previous millenium) is an electrical engineering professor. Students in...

16 years ago

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Embedding an ICC profile into a TIFF file
The R2009b release of MATLAB contains a new Tiff class. The primary purpose of this class is to provide lower-level...

16 years ago

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Faster morphological reconstruction in R2009b
We've been working for a while now to make Image Processing Toolbox functions run faster. The R2009b release notes...

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Friday links
Contour tracing - tutorial and algorithms List of computer vision research groups worldwide Camera...

16 years ago

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MATLAB Virtual Conference – “the high point of geekism this year”
I spent all of yesterday interacting with visitors to the MATLAB Virtual Conference. It was great fun! A blogger wrote...

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Deploying Image Processing Toolbox apps in R2009b – we goofed
Ack! We discovered recently that we broke application deployment when using the MATLAB Compiler with Image...

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Friday links
Here are some end-of-the-week image processing links for you. Martian Polar Activity - tutorial illustrating the use of...

16 years ago

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Release notes for old versions
Last week Oliver asked for the release in which CMYK TIFF support was added to imwrite. Oliver then followed up asking for...

16 years ago

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MATLAB Virtual Conference on October 14
We're having a MATLAB "virtual conference" on October 14. There'll be presentations, live Q&A, roundtable discussions,...

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Tab completion for imread, imfinfo, and imwrite in R2009b
OK, I'm embarrassed that I didn't even know about this particular new feature in R2009b. Yesterday I was in another...

16 years ago