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What Is a Savitzky-Golay Filter? [Lecture Notes]

Schafer, Ronald·2011·IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

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This article has attempted to answer the question "What is a Savitky-Golay filter?" in terms that will be familiar to the DSP community and readers of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. This article reviewed the definition and properties of S-G filters and showed how they can be designed easily using polynomial approximation of an impulse sequence. In contrast to most discussions of S-G filters, they focused on the frequency domain properties, and offered an approximate formula for the 3-dB cutoff frequency as a function of polynomial order N and impulse response half length M. Engineers with a frequency domain mindset may find this useful if they choose to use S-G filters in their application.

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Authors
Schafer, R.
Venue
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
Published
2011-07
Volume
28
Issue
4
Pages
111-117
ISSN
1053-5888 (ISSN-L)
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W2150823344
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1,786
References
1
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34.41
Type
journal article
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en
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