cepstrum
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cepstrum (plural cepstra)
(signal processing) The inverse Fourier transform of the logarithm of a magnitude spectrum; used especially in voice analysis.
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For example, the cepstrum converts a signal to the frequency domain through Fourier transform, takes the logarithm, then applies another Fourier transform.
In particular, the power cepstrum is often used as a feature vector for representing the human voice and musical signals.
It was in use before the cepstrum.
J.Moir and J.F.Barrett,Proc Royal Society A,Vol.459,2003, pp.2957-2976 Applications The cepstrum can be seen as information about rate of change in the different spectrum bands.
Note that a pure sine wave should not be used to test the cepstrum for its pitch determination from quefrency as a pure sine wave does not contain any harmonics.
Steps in forming cepstrum from time history The complex cepstrum uses the complex logarithm function defined for complex values.