Convolution and the Fourier Transform explained visually

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  • Опубликовано: 4 фев 2025

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  • @MarkNewmanEducation
    @MarkNewmanEducation  2 года назад +25

    At 3:58, for anyone who would like to know why, in general convolution, g(τ) has to be reversed so that it becomes g(-τ), it is because, if it isn't, then the response comes out backwards. For the Fourier Transform, however, as I mention in the video reversing g(τ) when it is a sinusoid has no effect as sinusoids are symmetrical.

    • @teddyspaw
      @teddyspaw Год назад +2

      I was never aware of the special case of the sinusoid, as an even function, not "caring" if it was reversed or not. That factoid greatly increased my understanding of relationship between convolution and the Fourier transform.

    • @derwhalfisch
      @derwhalfisch 9 дней назад

      Is it fair to say that as you slide the window forwards in time, the next sample must encounter what represents the 'start' of the impulse response rather than its end?

  • @liftkit1672
    @liftkit1672 2 дня назад

    You're a legend for the visual animation. After 5 years of EE, I can finally intuitively understand convolution.

  • @dddderek
    @dddderek 2 года назад +12

    Blew my mind! I left a huge reply on your next video that isn't even out yet!!! This is the teaching I've been waiting my entire life for!!! Thank you so much!!! Love the graphics, too. Boy, convolving the image of yourself with yourself, what a great visual example!!!

    • @MarkNewmanEducation
      @MarkNewmanEducation  2 года назад +5

      Thank you so much for your comments. That might be a first for me, getting a comment on a video that is just a "coming soon" place holder for a video that is currently in production 😁. The visual approach was really missing for me at Uni. My lecturers seemed to think that the formulae explained everything. This is something I really want to address in these videos. It appears that I'm not the only one who has a problem with this approach and I want to help people like me who need a diagram or two to explain things.
      In the next video, we're going to dissect the for Fourier Transform equation, see how imaginary numbers can be thought of as a rotation in geometric terms and see how by looking at the spiral shape of the complex exponential in 3 dimensions, it does the whole convolution operation in one go without having to slide g(τ) over the signal.

  • @littleKingSolomon
    @littleKingSolomon 2 года назад +1

    My search for intuition behind convolution comes to an end with Mark Newman being the game changer. Thanks a ton Mark. Liked and subbed.

  • @dancxjo
    @dancxjo Год назад

    I've been looking for this video for 20 years! Acoustics makes so much more sense now. Thanks for explaining the magic!!

  • @seahawkers101
    @seahawkers101 2 года назад +1

    Your explanation is a work of art. I could cry. :)

  • @sylvesterjonas9141
    @sylvesterjonas9141 Год назад

    Discovering your channel is like discovering a diamond mine. You deserve every single good thing for your contributions to the development of the human race. Thanks goodness for your existence.

    • @MarkNewmanEducation
      @MarkNewmanEducation  11 месяцев назад

      You're welcome. It is a labour of love. Thanks for your kind words.

  • @НиколайАлексапольский
    @НиколайАлексапольский 6 месяцев назад +1

    Это лучшее объяснение свёртки, что я видел. Спасибо!

  • @teddyspaw
    @teddyspaw Год назад

    Brilliant! Thank you for producing an excellent visual presentation and explanation. I really like the "score" concept!

  • @arjungoud3450
    @arjungoud3450 2 года назад +3

    Thank a lot, not been this clear with other videos.

  • @gergerger53
    @gergerger53 2 года назад

    Nice to see you back with more videos, Mark. You're the only person who's made the Fourier Transform clear to me. It's all a bit dusty again, so I hope to review your older content and also look forward to any new stuff you put out.

    • @MarkNewmanEducation
      @MarkNewmanEducation  2 года назад

      Thank you. The next video is currently in production and I hope to release it in a few weeks time. In it, we consider what the imaginary number "i" is doing in the Fourier Transform equation and how it makes the convolution operation quicker.

  • @ercoco1az
    @ercoco1az 2 года назад +1

    What a great explanation! I'm not coming out of college blind after all.

  • @ANJA-mj1to
    @ANJA-mj1to Год назад

    Showing presentation quite different - diverse illustrated than others in the a Fourier transform in case of useful properties as signal is brilliant idea to this important concept that in practical phyhisics can be given by an example like imaging a perfect spectometar and so on represent the Spectral Power Density.
    Thanks for fluorescent presentation 👍 and brilliant input to the Convolution Theorem

  • @punditgi
    @punditgi Год назад +2

    This video is totally awesome!

  • @tuemaidanh6624
    @tuemaidanh6624 4 месяца назад

    Absolutely perfect video. Thank you so much!

  • @essiMaleki
    @essiMaleki 10 месяцев назад

    you are really one of the best

  • @gbr4167
    @gbr4167 3 месяца назад +1

    Hey Professor Mark,
    I’m a surgeon from Taiwan and I’m really into machine learning. Your video was super helpful. It broke down the concepts in a way that was easy to understand.
    Hope everything’s going great for you this year!

  • @Ishanya_
    @Ishanya_ 11 месяцев назад

    ohhh man, best prof everrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

  • @MOHNAKHAN
    @MOHNAKHAN 2 года назад

    Very perfect explanation 👍👍👍

  • @dhrubjun
    @dhrubjun Год назад

    Such a beautiful explanation 👍

  • @anshulchaudhary-m6l
    @anshulchaudhary-m6l 8 месяцев назад

    Thanks for such a good explanation.

  • @jimmea6317
    @jimmea6317 5 месяцев назад +2

    mark is the electrical engineering professor we wish all the rest of them could be

  • @mutalasuragemohammed6954
    @mutalasuragemohammed6954 2 года назад +1

    😅my God! you made me laugh with the bang with which the formula dropped... It's been our nightmare in undergraduate study. Thank you for the succinct explanation.

    • @MarkNewmanEducation
      @MarkNewmanEducation  2 года назад +1

      The way I wince as it falls in the video, was basically how I felt when I first learned it all those years ago at university. My lecturer never explained it properly to me. This is why I am making these videos. There is a visual way of explaining math that is not taught at university. At least, it wasn't when I was there.

  • @muddassirghoorun4322
    @muddassirghoorun4322 2 года назад +1

    Amazing content

  • @booky6149
    @booky6149 2 года назад +1

    Oh my goodness! Thank you so much!

  • @theoaks1941
    @theoaks1941 Год назад

    Thank you for this great video!

  • @Amir-es8wy
    @Amir-es8wy 3 месяца назад

    ❤❤thanks for your explanation

  • @TheFreeSpiritKID
    @TheFreeSpiritKID 2 года назад

    Wonderful explanation

  • @calvinluiramo5514
    @calvinluiramo5514 2 года назад

    I always love your explanation they so simple with simple conceptualization and are easy to understand, if could run one for "Green's function" I would be grateful...

    • @MarkNewmanEducation
      @MarkNewmanEducation  2 года назад +1

      Thank you for your kind words and your suggestion. I'll look into it. New video out later later today called "The Imaginary Number i and the Fourier Transform"

  • @MrMichaelYD
    @MrMichaelYD 2 года назад

    fantastic video

  • @curtpiazza1688
    @curtpiazza1688 Год назад

    This is GREAT! Thanx! 😊

  • @michaelliu6323
    @michaelliu6323 Год назад

    thank you Mark!

  • @salmonsushi47
    @salmonsushi47 2 года назад

    Keep up the great work!

  • @tashi2009
    @tashi2009 2 года назад

    Bro, plz make more such videos. . .wonderful

    • @MarkNewmanEducation
      @MarkNewmanEducation  2 года назад

      Thanks. I'm making one as we speak all about i and the Fourier Transform.

  • @fardinfahim3832
    @fardinfahim3832 9 месяцев назад +1

    this has to be the clearest explanation of what convolution is..

  • @manofmen701
    @manofmen701 Год назад

    Great video

  • @rpshukla001
    @rpshukla001 Год назад +1

    Nice Sir my self Dr RP shukla from India

  • @keylanoslokj1806
    @keylanoslokj1806 Год назад

    Can you please do a comparison between AM and FM modulations?

  • @johana3097
    @johana3097 Год назад +1

    Is it possible to get the fourier transform of a sound signal by just using the formulas?

    • @MarkNewmanEducation
      @MarkNewmanEducation  Год назад +2

      You'd need to know the formula of the sound signal. Most sounds are random so they don't have defined formulae. That is why you need the DFT and FFT.

  • @pradyumnanimbkar8011
    @pradyumnanimbkar8011 11 месяцев назад +2

    Mate, how do I learn how to do physics animation and make graphs such as yourself?

    • @MarkNewmanEducation
      @MarkNewmanEducation  11 месяцев назад +4

      I do a lot of my animations in JavaScript. If helps that I have been a programmer for many years. I love JavaScript. There are tons of really good sites to help you learn it and all you need to run the code is a text editor and a web browser. The video editing I do in a package called Hitfilm.

  • @SAJAN_ECE
    @SAJAN_ECE 2 года назад +1

    Actually we are checking the similarity between two signals here. That is called Correlation right? I am confused. Which one are we doing in Fourier Transform? Correlation or Convolution? Please clarify my doubt.

    • @MarkNewmanEducation
      @MarkNewmanEducation  2 года назад

      In the Fourier transform it is convolution. In convolution, the g(τ) signal is reversed. In correlation, it isn't. But you're right, the two methods are very similar.
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolution
      This Wikipedia page has a good diagram explaining the difference.

    • @SAJAN_ECE
      @SAJAN_ECE 2 года назад

      @@MarkNewmanEducation In Fourier Transform we are changing the frequency of the sine waves and checking the similarity between the original signal and sine wave right? In that case that must be Correlation right? In the case of Filtering I agree, that is a convolution between the original signal and the impulse response of the filter. But in the Analysis Equation of Fourier Transform, the actual operation is just correlation right? Please correct me if I am wrong.

  • @XZJAK
    @XZJAK 2 года назад +1

    Best!Bset!Best!

  • @hanshen5584
    @hanshen5584 8 месяцев назад +1

    Shouldn't the final convolution function (the integral) be plotted against time not tau? Since what we are varying is the time offset?

    • @andreestevam131
      @andreestevam131 6 месяцев назад +1

      The last plot at 6:00, right? I think you're right.

  • @_tasneem7378
    @_tasneem7378 Год назад

    Amazing😂🌹

  • @harryhirsch2024
    @harryhirsch2024 Год назад +1

    Sinusoids are not symmetrical. sin(-tau)=-sin(tau). There are several other problems with this exposition and it intermingles cause and effect.

    • @findLuxuryHub
      @findLuxuryHub 10 месяцев назад

      Test wave he used is cosine wave, so no need to worry

  • @JohnBerry-q1h
    @JohnBerry-q1h 2 месяца назад

    kc

  • @jameshopkins3541
    @jameshopkins3541 10 месяцев назад

    ??????????

  • @mujomuric446
    @mujomuric446 Год назад

    Mehr licht

  • @oguzcan815
    @oguzcan815 9 месяцев назад

    sup

  • @tu_nonna_emiliana
    @tu_nonna_emiliana Месяц назад +3

    This is your brain on drugs