xcorr and time lag

11 次查看(过去 30 天)
N
N 2014-8-29
评论: N 2014-9-1
Hi all,
I have a simple, but yet I can't seem to figure it out, question about crosscorrelation.When I find my maximum crosscorrelation, I want to find the corresponding time lag. What I have in code so far:
x = [0 0 1 5 1 -2 -3 -2 0 0];
y = [0 0 1 5 1 -2 -3 -2 0 0];
X2 = xcorr(x,y,'coeff'); (so we expect a xcorr of 1 because its the same signal)
plot(lags,C)
[val,idx] = max(abs(C))
Now it says that the maximum crosscorrelation (1) is at time lag 10. now I get that because the time series goes from -9 till +9, so step 10 is at zero-lag, but how can I get as answer the zero and not 10. So I want the real value of time lag and not the amount of steps.
Later on I would actually want to make the time lags correspond to real time as well ,so for example a lag of 1 equals to 2 seconds, which is the reason I want the amount and not the steps so I know how many seconds really passed. How can I do this also, so make the time lag correspond to real seconds?

采纳的回答

dpb
dpb 2014-8-29
编辑:dpb 2014-8-29
t=-length(x)+dt*idx;
where dt is the sampling time interval.
BTW, this is for full-length. If use the optional MAXLAGS argument, then will want to return and use the LAGS alternate return to get the actual lag instead of just counting from 1.

更多回答(1 个)

Honglei Chen
Honglei Chen 2014-8-29
You already have a variable lags, you can simply do lags(idx). BTW I didn't see how you compute the lags, but you could get it from xcorr, e.g.,
[X2,lags] = xcorr(x,y,'coeff')
HTH

Community Treasure Hunt

Find the treasures in MATLAB Central and discover how the community can help you!

Start Hunting!

Translated by