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Spectral Features

Spectral features provide general frequency-domain metrics on your data. To compute spectral features, you must already have a power spectrum or an order spectrum variable.

Frequency Band

Set the minimum and maximum values for the frequency range within which the spectral features are computed.

Spectral Peaks

  • Peak amplitude — Generate a feature based on the amplitude of the peaks.

  • Peak frequency — Generate a feature based on the frequency of the peaks.

  • Number of peaks — Number of peaks to generate features for. The software selects N most prominent peaks in the chosen frequency band, going in the descending amplitude order. For more information, in findpeaks, see the NPeaks name-value pair argument.

  • Peak value lower threshold — Constrain peak size to exclude low-amplitude peaks. For more information, in findpeaks, see the MinPeakHeight name-value pair argument.

  • Minimum frequency gap — Specify a minimum frequency gap. If the gap between two peaks is less than this specification, the software ignores the smaller peak of the pair. For more information, in findpeaks, see the MinPeakDistance name-value pair argument.

  • Peak excursion tolerance — Specify the minimum prominence of a peak. The prominence of a peak measures how much the peak stands out due to its intrinsic height and its location relative to other peaks. For more information, in findpeaks, see the MinPeakProminence name-value pair argument.

For more information, see findpeaks.

Modal Coefficients

Modal coefficient features extract modal parameters from frequency response information. The setting for Number of peaks determines the number of modal coefficients to return.

  • Natural frequency — Natural frequencies corresponding to each mode

  • Damping factor — Damping factor for each mode

For more information, see modalfit.

Band Power

Band power represents the power of the signal in the selected frequency band. It is defined as the area under the spectrum curve within the chosen band limits.

Additional Information

The software stores the results of the computation in new features. The new feature names include the source signal name with the suffix spec.