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PHYS 278 Advanced Astronomy
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Discrete Fourier Transform
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Discrete Fourier Transform
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Where is my pie?
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Fast Fourier Transforms
  • Using these two formulas, the real domain image is first transformed into an intermediate image using N one-dimensional Fourier Transforms.
  • This intermediate image is then transformed into the final image, again using N one-dimensional Fourier Transforms.
  • Expressing the two-dimensional Fourier Transform in terms of a series of 2N one-dimensional transforms decreases the number of required computations.
  • Even with these computational savings, the ordinary one-dimensional DFT has  N2 complexity.
  • This can be reduced to  N log N  if we employ the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) to compute the one dimension DFTs.
  • This is a significant improvement, in particular for large images.
  • There are various forms of the FFT and most of them restrict the size of the input image that may be transformed, often to N=n2




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Fast Fourier Transforms
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Fast Fourier Transforms
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Sampling interval
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Sampling Theory
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Graphical development of sampling concepts
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Sampling concepts – band limited function
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The Shannon Sampling Theorem
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Aliasing
  • A number of practical difficulties are encountered in reconstructing a signal from its samples.
  • The sampling theorem assumes that a signal is band limited. In practice, however, signals are time-limited, not band limited.
  • As a result, determining an adequate sampling frequency which does not lose desired information can be difficult.
  • When a signal is under sampled, its spectrum has overlapping tails; that is F(s) no longer has complete information about the spectrum and it is no longer possible to recover f(t) from the sampled signal.
  • In this case, the tailing spectrum does not go to zero, but is folded back onto the apparent spectrum.
  • This inversion of the tail is called spectral folding or aliasing
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Undersampled, oversampled, and critically-sampled unit area Gaussian curves.
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The Practical Case
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Graphical illustration of finite-sampling concepts
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Some key properties of Fourier Transforms In detail