transform op• Data kinds: table → signal
• Call: import fullseye as fs; fs.ledger.istft(transform) (to call the implementation directly, import acoustics; acoustics.istft(transform); from the registry, opsacoustics.get("istft"))
Invert stft by weighted overlap-add — exactly.
Weighted overlap-add divides the synthesised sum by the overlap sum of the *squared* window, which makes the reconstruction exact for any window and hop satisfying NOLA, not only for the COLA pairs. stft refuses the NOLA violation up front, so if the transform was produced by it the inverse cannot be lossy.
Measured round-trip error, max |x - istft(stft(x))| on 4096 samples of white noise (float64, so 2.2e-16 is one ulp of the largest sample):
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window win hop max error nola_min
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hann 256 128 1.33e-15 0.5
hann 256 64 1.33e-15 1.5
hann 256 255 2.73e-12 2.27e-08
hamming 256 128 1.33e-15 0.5832
blackman 512 128 1.33e-15 1.206
flattop 256 64 1.33e-15 0.396
boxcar 256 128 8.88e-16 2.0
hann (nfft 512) 256 128 1.33e-15 0.5
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Read the third row's two columns together. hop = 255 on a 256-sample window overlaps by one sample, which breaks plain (unweighted) overlap-add completely; weighted overlap-add still inverts it, but only to 2.7e-12 rather than 1.3e-15, because the squared-window overlap sum falls to 2.3e-08 and the reconstruction divides by it. NOLA is satisfied and the result is four orders of magnitude less accurate than every other row — which is why nola_min is *returned* and not merely checked. A NOLA minimum that is small but positive is a conditioning warning, and there is no threshold at which it stops being one, so no threshold is invented here.
Raises ValueError: a dict missing any key stft writes, a spectra whose shape disagrees with the recorded nfft / frame count, or a non-complex spectra.
• acoustic_condition_monitoring family guide
• Sample-data catalog (download URLs / licences) — 2-D uses skimage.data (BSD/public domain) plus synthetic images; 3-D lists download URLs for real data sources (Stanford, PDS, …).
• Operator provenance and references — the sources of the research/methods this op family came from.
• The canonical algorithm (author, year) and its uses are named in the family usage guide above.
• acoustic_condition_monitoring — py -3.11 examples/acoustic_condition_monitoring.py
signal as input)stft · envelope_spectrum · spectral_kurtosis · cepstrum · angular_resample · order_spectrum · octave_spectrum · weighting_response
transform)*Provenance: acoustics.py — ACOUSTICS operator registry. This per-op note is generated by tools/opdocs.py md (do not hand-edit).*
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