Whatever input value I give, the output is always like -2,0,0...
Also I needed to write fftwl_malloc instead of fftw_malloc and
fftwl_free instead of fftw_free
erenay yazdi:
> Hello Everybody,
> I'm not very experienced with DFT and FFTW library and I want to ask
> your opinion about the results I get.
> My aim is to determine if the sample input sequence is flickering with
> some frequency.
> In my project, I'm capturing frames from a video and geting the mean
> pixel value of some pixels with a certain property. I get one mean
> value for each frame. I want to check if these mean pixel values are
> flickering with the time or staying flat in comparison (not changing
> very much). For example:
> if I'm capturing 25 frames per second, I can detect if the pixel mean
> values are changing with a frequency close to 10Hz. if the input sample
> to be used in DFT is like: 230, 212, 236, 214, 243,...
> then I can say that values are changing up and down (flickering) with a
> frequency near 10 Hz. If the output array has some positive values
> corresponding to 8,9,10,11,12Hz's I can classify this input sequence as
> flickering.
>
> In order to detect some frequencies in the sample input, I have used
> the following code:
> //n is the number of input samples
> // averageRed is the array that holds the mean pixel values of each
> frame
>
> long double *in;
> fftwl_complex *out;
> fftwl_plan p;
> in = (long double*) fftw_malloc(sizeof(long double) * n);
> for (int i=0; i<n; i++){
> in[i] = (long double)averageRed[i];
> }
>
> out = (fftwl_complex*) fftw_malloc(sizeof(fftwl_complex) *
> averageIndex);
> p = fftwl_plan_dft_r2c_1d(n, in, out, FFTW_ESTIMATE);
> fftwl_execute(p);
> fftwl_destroy_plan(p);
> fftw_free(in);
> for (int i=0; i<averageIndex; i++){
> fprintf(output, "output %d -> %f, %f\n", i, out[i][0], out[i][1]);
> }
>
> fftw_free(out);
>
> The resuls of this calculation are as follows:
> First 15 input to the transform: 223.000000,195.000000, 238.000000,
> 217.625000, 232.600000, 218.857143, 215.333333, 233.000000, 225.800000,
> 223.600000, 226.2857, 182.500000, 222.200000, 213.750000, 213.400000,
> ...
> First 10 Outputs of the transform:
> output 0 -> -2.000000, 0.000000
> output 1 -> 0.000000, -2.000000
> output 2 -> 0.000000, -0.000000
> output 3 -> -2.000000, 0.000000
> output 4 -> -0.000000, -2.000000
> output 5 -> 0.000000, -0.000000
> output 6 -> -2.000000, 0.000000
> output 7 -> -0.000000, -2.000000
> output 8 -> 0.000000, -0.000000
> output 9 -> -2.000000, 0.000000
> output 10 -> -0.000000, -2.000000
>
> My questions are:
> 1-) It goes like: -2,0,0 until 264th output and later values are all 0
> but the input array had 353 samples. Shouldn't it go until 176th frame
> instead of the 264th?
> *2-) The output values doesn't seem right to me. I think real parts
> should not be negative and they should'nt repeat the same pattern!
> 3-) I should normalize the output by multiplying each output value by
> 25/353 (sample rate/N) right?
>
> Hope that I can get some help about this.
> Regards.
Reply by erenay●January 10, 20072007-01-10
Hello Everybody,
I'm not very experienced with DFT and FFTW library and I want to ask
your opinion about the results I get.
My aim is to determine if the sample input sequence is flickering with
some frequency.
In my project, I'm capturing frames from a video and geting the mean
pixel value of some pixels with a certain property. I get one mean
value for each frame. I want to check if these mean pixel values are
flickering with the time or staying flat in comparison (not changing
very much). For example:
if I'm capturing 25 frames per second, I can detect if the pixel mean
values are changing with a frequency close to 10Hz. if the input sample
to be used in DFT is like: 230, 212, 236, 214, 243,...
then I can say that values are changing up and down (flickering) with a
frequency near 10 Hz. If the output array has some positive values
corresponding to 8,9,10,11,12Hz's I can classify this input sequence as
flickering.
In order to detect some frequencies in the sample input, I have used
the following code:
//n is the number of input samples
// averageRed is the array that holds the mean pixel values of each
frame
long double *in;
fftwl_complex *out;
fftwl_plan p;
in = (long double*) fftw_malloc(sizeof(long double) * n);
for (int i=0; i<n; i++){
in[i] = (long double)averageRed[i];
}
out = (fftwl_complex*) fftw_malloc(sizeof(fftwl_complex) *
averageIndex);
p = fftwl_plan_dft_r2c_1d(n, in, out, FFTW_ESTIMATE);
fftwl_execute(p);
fftwl_destroy_plan(p);
fftw_free(in);
for (int i=0; i<averageIndex; i++){
fprintf(output, "output %d -> %f, %f\n", i, out[i][0], out[i][1]);
}
fftw_free(out);
The resuls of this calculation are as follows:
First 15 input to the transform: 223.000000,195.000000, 238.000000,
217.625000, 232.600000, 218.857143, 215.333333, 233.000000, 225.800000,
223.600000, 226.2857, 182.500000, 222.200000, 213.750000, 213.400000,
...
First 10 Outputs of the transform:
output 0 -> -2.000000, 0.000000
output 1 -> 0.000000, -2.000000
output 2 -> 0.000000, -0.000000
output 3 -> -2.000000, 0.000000
output 4 -> -0.000000, -2.000000
output 5 -> 0.000000, -0.000000
output 6 -> -2.000000, 0.000000
output 7 -> -0.000000, -2.000000
output 8 -> 0.000000, -0.000000
output 9 -> -2.000000, 0.000000
output 10 -> -0.000000, -2.000000
My questions are:
1-) It goes like: -2,0,0 until 264th output and later values are all 0
but the input array had 353 samples. Shouldn't it go until 176th frame
instead of the 264th?
*2-) The output values doesn't seem right to me. I think real parts
should not be negative and they should'nt repeat the same pattern!
3-) I should normalize the output by multiplying each output value by
25/353 (sample rate/N) right?
Hope that I can get some help about this.
Regards.