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Top-hat filter
Top-hat filters are several real-space or Fourier space filtering techniques. The name top-hat originates from the shape of the filter, which is a rectangle function, when viewed in the domain in which the filter is constructed.
Real space
In real-space the filter performs nearest-neighbour filtering, incorporating components from neighbouring y-function values. Despite its ease of implementation, its practical use is limited as the real-space representation of a top-hat filter is the sinc function, which has the often undesirable effect of incorporating non-local frequencies.
Analogue implementations
Exact non-digital implementations are only theoretically possible. Top-hat filters can be constructed by chaining theoretical low-band and high-band filters. In practice, an approximate top-hat filter can be constructed in analogue hardware using approximate low-band and high-band filters.
Fourier space
In Fourier space, a top hat filter selects a band of signal of desired frequency by the specification of lower and upper bounding frequencies. Top-hat filters are particularly easy to implement digitally.
References
References
- (2008). "Discrete Fourier Analysis and Wavelets: Applications to Signal and Image Processing". [[John Wiley & Sons.
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