Gabor transform

Gabor transform

The Gabor transform is a special case of the short-time Fourier transform. It is used to determine the sinusoidal frequency and phase content of local sections of a signal as it changes over time. The function to be transform is first multiplied by a Gaussian function, which can be regarded as a window, and the resulting function is then transformed with a Fourier transform to derive the time-frequency analysis. The window function means that the signal near the time being analyzed will have higher weight. The mathematical definition is given below:

: G_x(t,f) = int_{-infty}^{infty}e^{-pi( au-t)^2}e^{-j2pi f au}x( au),d au

Gaussian function has infinite range and it is impractical for implementation. But take a look at the distribution of Gaussian function.

: egin{cases}e^{-{pi}a^2} ge 0.00001; & left| a ight| le 1.9143 \e^{-{pi}a^2} < 0.00001; & left| a ight| > 1.9143 \end{cases}

Gaussian function with left| a ight| > 1.9143 can be regarded as 0 and also can be ignored. Thus the Gabor transform can be simplified as

: G_x(t,f) = int_{-1.9143}^{1.9143}e^{-pi( au-t)^2}e^{-j2pi f au}x( au),d au

This simplification makes the Gabor transform practical and can be realized.

Inverse Gabor transform

The Gabor transform is invertible. The original signal can be recovered by the following equation

: x(t) = int_{-infty}^{infty}G_x(t,f) e^{j2pi tf},df

Properties of the Gabor transform

The Gabor transform has many properties like those of the Fourier transform. These properties are listed in the following tables.

Application and example

The main application of the Gabor transform is used in time frequency analysis. Take the following equation as an example. The input signal has 1Hz frequency component when "t" ≤ 0 and has 2Hz frequency component when "t" > 0

: x(t) = egin{cases}cos(2pi t); tle0 \cos(4pi t); t> 0 \end{cases}

But if the total bandwidth available is 5Hz, other frequency bands except x(t) are wasted. Through time frequency analysis by applying the Gabor transform, the available bandwidth can be known and those frequency bands can be used for other applications and bandwidth is saved. The right side picture show the input signal "x"("t") and the output of the Gabor transform. As our expectation, the frequency distribution can be separate as two parts. One is "t" ≤ 0 and the other is "t" > 0. The white part is the frequency band occupied by x(t) and the black part is not used.

ee also

* Time-frequency representation
* short-time Fourier transform
* Wigner distribution function

References

*Jian-Jiun Ding, Time frequency analysis and wavelet transform class note,the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei, Taiwan, 2007.


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