Generalized spectrogram

In order to view a signal (taken to be a function of time) represented over both time and frequency axis, time–frequency representation is used. Spectrogram is one of the most popular time-frequency representation, and generalized spectrogram, also called "two-window spectrogram", is the generalized application of spectrogram.

Definition

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The definition of the spectrogram relies on the Gabor transform (also called short-time Fourier transform, for short STFT), whose idea is to localize a signal f in time by multiplying it with translations of a window function  .

The definition of spectrogram is

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where   denotes the Gabor Transform of  .

Based on the spectrogram, the generalized spectrogram is defined as:

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where:

 
 

For  , it reduces to the classical spectrogram:

 

The feature of Generalized spectrogram is that the window sizes of   and   are different. Since the time-frequency resolution will be affected by the window size, if one choose a wide   and a narrow   (or the opposite), the resolutions of them will be high in different part of spectrogram. After the multiplication of these two Gabor transform, the resolutions of both time and frequency axis will be enhanced.

Properties

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Relation with Wigner Distribution
 
where  
Time marginal condition
The generalized spectrogram   satisfies the time marginal condition if and only if  ,
where   denotes the Dirac delta function
Frequency marginal condition
The generalized spectrogram   satisfies the frequency marginal condition if and only if  ,
where   denotes the Dirac delta function
Conservation of energy
The generalized spectrogram   satisfies the conservation of energy if and only if  .
Reality analysis
The generalized spectrogram   is real if and only if   for some  .

References

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