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Figure 36: <strong>Time</strong>-<strong>frequency</strong> resolution <strong>of</strong> the Gabor Transform.<br />

= ! 0 2 ! = 2<br />

(72)<br />

Then, in the case <strong>of</strong> Gabor Transform, the <strong>frequency</strong> resolution depends on the window<br />

wide, corresponding to small values <strong>of</strong> (wide windows see eq. 16) a better <strong>frequency</strong><br />

resolution (but a worst time resolution see also discussion <strong>of</strong> the window sizein<br />

sec. x3.2).<br />

analyzing<br />

The area determined by the <strong>frequency</strong> window multiplied by the time window is<br />

called time-<strong>frequency</strong> window. Plotting <strong>of</strong> the time-<strong>frequency</strong> window is an easy way<br />

to visualize the time-<strong>frequency</strong> resolution: its wide represents the time resolution, its<br />

height represents the <strong>frequency</strong> resolution <strong>and</strong> its area represents the time-<strong>frequency</strong><br />

resolution, this last one having alower bound determined by the uncertainty principle.<br />

In the case <strong>of</strong> the Gabor Transform, once the window is xed, the <strong>frequency</strong> resolution<br />

is the same for all the frequencies (<strong>and</strong> therefore the time resolution too see g. 36).<br />

Then, for low <strong>frequency</strong> <strong>signals</strong>, a wide window will be suitable <strong>and</strong> in the case <strong>of</strong> high<br />

frequencies, a narrow window will do the job. However, due to its xed window size,<br />

Gabor Transform is not suitable for analyzing <strong>signals</strong> with dierent ranges <strong>of</strong> frequencies.<br />

On the other h<strong>and</strong>, in the case <strong>of</strong> the Wavelet Transform, the size <strong>of</strong> the window is<br />

adapted, thus giving an optimal resolution for all frequencies (see g. 37).<br />

The Wavelet Transform consists in making a correlation between the original signal<br />

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