Proper wavelet scaling / restricted frequency analysis
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Dear all, I sample a signal with 20000 Hz and I'm using e.g. the morlet wavelet to analyze the frequency content of short time periods (e.g. 500 ms). Two questions: The scaling os correlated to the pseudo-freuency range of the wavelet transfrom. How can I determine the optimal scaling factor? I'm just interested in the frequency range of 100-300 Hz. Is there a possibility - e.g. through the factors - to focus the wavelet analyses on this frequency range? Looking forward to your advice. Best, Peter
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Wayne King
on 16 May 2013
Edited: Wayne King
on 16 May 2013
Yes, it is possible, but you have to remember that the CWT is not as localized in frequency as the Fourier basis, so you have to give yourself some wiggle room. A sine wave will not be localized at one scale in the CWT. The way to do it best depends on whether you are using cwt.m or cwtft.m.
I'll create a signal consisting of 100-Hz and 300-Hz sine waves in noise. The 100-Hz signal will occur over the first 500 msec, the 300-Hz sine wave over the interval from 500 msec to 1 second.
Here is cwt.m:
fs = 2e4;
t = 0:1/fs:2-1/fs;
x = ...
2*cos(2*pi*100*t).*(t<0.500)+3*cos(2*pi*300*t).*(t>0.500 & t <1)+randn(size(t));
dt = 1/fs;
minscale = centfrq('morl')/(300*dt);
maxscale = centfrq('morl')/(100*dt);
scales = minscale-10:maxscale+10;
cfs = cwt(x,scales,'morl','plot');
Now for cwtft (using an analytic Morlet wavelet)
MorletFourierFactor = 4*pi/(6+sqrt(2+6^2));
s0 = (0.002*MorletFourierFactor);
smax = (1/100*MorletFourierFactor);
ds =0.2;
nb = ceil(log2(smax/s0)/ds+1);
scales = struct('s0',s0,'ds',0.5,'nb',nb,'type','pow','pow',2);
cwtS1 = cwtft({x,dt},'scales',scales,'wavelet','morl');
sc = cwtS1.scales;
freq = 1./(sc*MorletFourierFactor);
contour(t,freq,abs(cwtS1.cfs));
xlabel('Time'); ylabel('Pseudo-Frequency');
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vinod naidu
on 10 May 2016
Edited: vinod naidu
on 10 May 2016
I wanted to do in the same way for my recorded audio signal I have a [x, fs]=audioread('rec2.wav'); which loads x [81410x1] double and fs=44100
I want to scale the signal 1.65 to 2 & with the decrement of 0.005 for choosing high frequency contents ,and i want to know which one represents the a,b coefficents ? in
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Akshay Ravindran
on 2 Jul 2017
Hi ,
Can i use the scale generated after performing cwtft as input to cwt function ( older version of cwt) .
I am a bit confused as you seem to assign linear scaling based on frequency of interest as input. How exactly does the scale factor in the older version of cwt work?
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