Zero padding in spectrogram function

Hi, i am kinda new with matlab. how do i use zeropadding to test if i get better results?

after i load the data of my experiments i use the following code:

window = 512    ;
figure(2); 
spectrogram(data,blackman(window),500,window, fs ,'yaxis');    
xlabel('Time (sec)');
ylabel('Frequency (Hz)');
colormap jet ;

thanks for help!

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Answer 1

[Galdir Reges]

If you want zero padding to increase the resolution of each short time fft, you must change the nfft in syntax

spectrogram(x,window,noverlap,nfft, fs)

If X is a vector and the length of X is less than nfft, then X is padded with trailing zeros to length nfft.(https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/fft.html)

Also, you define can use the syntax with cyclical frequencies, specified as a vector. f must have at least two elements, because otherwise the function interprets it as nfft. The units of f are specified by the sample rate, fs.

spectrogram(x,window,noverlap,f, fs)

then f specify a frequency zoom and zero padding. For example, f=[55:0.001:65], with fs in samples per second, set the spectrogram to the range between 55Hz and 65Hz also with a frequency increment of 0.001 Hz using enough zero padding to that