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Aliasing literally means "by a different name" and is used to explain the effect of under-sampling a continuous signal, which causes frequencies to show up as different frequencies. This aliased signal is the signal at a different frequency. This is usually seen as higher frequencies being aliased to lower frequencies. For a 1d signal in time, the aliased frequency components sound lower in pitch. In 2d space, such as images, this can be observed as parallel lines in pinstripe shirts aliasing into large wavy lines. For 2d signals that vary in time, an example of aliasing would be viewing propellers on a plane that seem to be turning slow when they are actually moving at very high speeds.
In Figure 1 a 500Hz cosine signal is shown in red, and an under-sampled version of the signal in blue.
To see the effects of aliasing on a 1kHz cosine signal create an over-sampled, under-sampled, and critically-sampled version of the signal.
soundsc . How many samples are needed to make the sound last 2 seconds if the step size is 1/10kHz?soundsc , does it sound the same?soundsc , how does it sound now?Have you ever seen an old western movie and noticed that the wagon wheels appear to turn backwards even though the coach is moving forward? This phenomenon is sometimes referred to as the wagon-wheel effect, but is really an effect of temporal aliasing. You can see the same effect easily on anything with a spoked wheel, such as wheels on a stage coach and airplane propellers.
Wagon-wheels, stage coaches, horses, and airplane propellers?? What's this have to do with signal processing? Actually, quite a lot, not the wagon-wheels directly, but how the images of the wagon-wheels are captured. The video you watch from a movie or tv show is actually sampled in time (hence temporal). Typically a movie is captured at 24 frames per second (FPS).
Now it's your turn to be the cinematographer. For this problem you will take an image of a wagon-wheel and "capture" a MATLAB movie at different frame rates of the wheel rotating. After the movie is made, you will be able to play it back, and if everything worked, be able to see the wheel spin.
A movie of a rotating wheel is a signal in time, and at each instant in time, instead of just one point (like a normal x(t) signal), you have a whole image defined. Thus, if you have an image of an arrow rotating, Figure 2, where the image rotates ten times per second, then the period is 1/10 second, because every 1/10 second the image (signal) is at the same value again. Thus image(t+n/10) = image(t) for all integers n.
If an image rotates at 10 Hz (10 rotations per second), then what is the Nyquist sampling rate so that you can reconstruct the temporal signal? Recall that the signal will be critically sampled when using a sampling rate that is twice the highest frequency in the signal (20 Hz, in this case). Anything above that will be over-sampled, and fewer samples/second will be under-sampled.
Check your understanding: standard film is captured at 24 frames per second. What's the highest frequency of motion that can be reconstructed without aliasing?
Create three movies to show the wheel being over-sampled (appears to be rotating clockwise), under-sampled (appears to be rotating counter-clockwise), and critically-sampled (appears stationary). In each case rotate the wheel at the same rate and only change the frame rate in the
movie2avi command (keep the FPS under 30).
Write a Matlab function named
wheel.m to create a movie showing the spokes image (download it
here ) rotate clockwise at a constant speed. The function should take parameters to change the frame rate and the speed of the rotation. Save the movies as
wheel-oversample.avi ,
wheel-undersample.avi , and
wheel-critsample.avi . Label the plot with the frame rate used for each of the movies and the degrees per frame. Here some tips below to help you get started.
imread ,
imshow ,
imrotate ,
getframe , and
movie2avi .
imrotate command rotates clockwise, and a positive angle rotates counterclockwise.sprintf . For more information use the help system in Matlab.myImageRotated = imrotate(myImage, theta, 'bilinear', 'crop') for the rotate command.degPerFrame will be our speed and
theta will be the actual number of degrees to rotate for the rotate command. Remember to change
degPerFrame to reflect the same speed when changing the frame rate. Now we can setup a
for loop something like this,
for i = 1:FPS*TIME% rotate the image
% display the image% label the plot showing the FPS and speed of the wheelpause(0.01) % allows time for the plot to drawmyMovie(i) = getframe(gcf); % Capture the frame
theta = theta + degPerFrame; % Calculate the angle for next frameend
% save the avi file degPerFrame to relate to degrees per second? Given some frame rate, how many degrees pass each frame to make a rotation of
take 1 second? At a given frame rate, can you calculate the number of frames are needed to last a given amount of time, say 3 seconds?.for loop is done, you will need to save the movie as an avi to watch it. Use the
movie2avi function to save the movie. Why can't we just watch the wheel as it is drawing in the
for loop?Now try the same problem with a different picture of your choice. Can you get it to appear to move backwards? Save the movie as
myMovie.avi .
Show the TA the following files:
wheel.m
wheel-oversample.aviwheel-undersample.avi
wheel-critsample.avimyMovie.avi
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