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Fourier Transform Applications
Fourier Transform Applications
Fourier
In this lecture..
Transforms
Mathematical Introduction
Fourier Transform
Applications
Summary References
Transforms
Example of a substitution: Original equation: x4 + 4x 8 = 0 Familiar form: ax + bx + c = 0 Let: y = x Solve for y x = y
Transforms
Transform:
In mathematics, a function that results when a given function is multiplied by a so-called kernel function, and the product is integrated between suitable limits.
Transforms
Transforms are used in mathematics to solve differential equations:
Fourier Transform
Property of transforms:
A transform takes one function (or signal) and turns it into another function (or signal) They convert a function from one domain to another with no loss of information
Fourier Transform:
converts a function from the time (or spatial) domain to the frequency domain
Tells us how properties (air pressure in a sound function, for example) change over time:
In picture: the composition of the first two functions gives the bottom one
Fourier Transform
Because of the property: Fourier Transform takes us to the frequency domain:
The property of euler number is what gives the F transform the power to take us to freq. domain
Applications
In image processing:
Instead of time domain: spatial domain (normal image space) frequency domain: spatial to freq domain
Summary
Transforms:
Useful in mathematics (solving DE) Lets us easily switch between time-space domain and frequency domain so applicable in many other areas Easy to pick out frequencies Many applications
Fourier Transform:
References
Concepts and the frequency domain http://www.spd.eee.strath.ac.uk/~interact/fourier/concepts.html THE FREQUENCY DOMAIN Introduction http://www.netnam.vn/unescocourse/computervision/91.htm JPNM Physics Fourier Transform http://www.med.harvard.edu/JPNM/physics/didactics/improc/intro/fourier2.html Introduction to the Frequency Domain http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/webmain/F814BEB1A040CDC6862568460 0508C88 Fourier Transform (Efunda) http://www.efunda.com/math/fourier_transform/