Figure 1.
Comparison of DBT and time-segmented STFT. A: Schematic overview of steps in computing the DBT. The FFT of the full signal x(t) is computed giving x̃(f) and reshaped into a matrix whose columns are overlapping windows of the full FFT, implementing a series of bandpass filters. The inverse FFT on the matrix columns gives the demodulated band representation. Because the filter window excludes negative frequencies, the procedure results in a complex-valued analytic signal, from which instantaneous amplitude and relative phase may be extracted. B: STFT applies the FFT after reshaping the signal into short time segments.