Day 5: Whose window function is it anyway?

This is not how we use a window function on the computer…

One day someone looked at the windowed fourier transform and said, “Don’t be such a square!” and thus window functions were invented. If you believe that, then I have an island for sale, real cheap. But seriously, let’s do a dive into what a window function is and why the heck there are so many of them, because there ARE a LOT! So let’s get started!*

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August 24, 2019 | Categories: 365 Days of Academia - Year one | Tags: computer, Education, Engineering, neuroscience, PSD, signal processing, spectral leakage, spectrogram, window function | Leave a comment