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librosa.interp_harmonics

librosa.interp_harmonics(x, freqs, h_range, kind='linear', fill_value=0, axis=0)

Compute the energy at harmonics of time-frequency representation.

Given a frequency-based energy representation such as a spectrogram or tempogram, this function computes the energy at the chosen harmonics of the frequency axis. (See examples below.) The resulting harmonic array can then be used as input to a salience computation.

Parameters:

xnp.ndarray

The input energy

freqsnp.ndarray, shape=(X.shape[axis])

The frequency values corresponding to X’s elements along the chosen axis.

h_rangelist-like, non-negative

Harmonics to compute. The first harmonic (1) corresponds to x itself. Values less than one (e.g., 1/2) correspond to sub-harmonics.

kindstr

Interpolation type. See scipy.interpolate.interp1d.

fill_valuefloat

The value to fill when extrapolating beyond the observed frequency range.

axisint

The axis along which to compute harmonics

Returns:

x_harmnp.ndarray, shape=(len(h_range), [x.shape])

x_harm[i] will have the same shape as x, and measure the energy at the h_range[i] harmonic of each frequency.

See also

scipy.interpolate.interp1d

Examples

Estimate the harmonics of a time-averaged tempogram

>>> y, sr = librosa.load(librosa.ex('choice'))
>>> # Compute the time-varying tempogram and average over time
>>> tempi = np.mean(librosa.feature.tempogram(y=y, sr=sr), axis=1)
>>> # We'll measure the first five harmonics
>>> h_range = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
>>> f_tempo = librosa.tempo_frequencies(len(tempi), sr=sr)
>>> # Build the harmonic tensor
>>> t_harmonics = librosa.interp_harmonics(tempi, f_tempo, h_range)
>>> print(t_harmonics.shape)
(5, 384)

>>> # And plot the results
>>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>>> fig, ax = plt.subplots()
>>> librosa.display.specshow(t_harmonics, x_axis='tempo', sr=sr, ax=ax)
>>> ax.set(yticks=0.5 + np.arange(len(h_range)),
...        yticklabels=['{:.3g}'.format(_) for _ in h_range],
...        ylabel='Harmonic', xlabel='Tempo (BPM)')

We can also compute frequency harmonics for spectrograms. To calculate sub-harmonic energy, use values < 1.

>>> y, sr = librosa.load(librosa.ex('trumpet'), duration=3)
>>> h_range = [1./3, 1./2, 1, 2, 3, 4]
>>> S = np.abs(librosa.stft(y))
>>> fft_freqs = librosa.fft_frequencies(sr=sr)
>>> S_harm = librosa.interp_harmonics(S, fft_freqs, h_range, axis=0)
>>> print(S_harm.shape)
(6, 1025, 646)

>>> fig, ax = plt.subplots(nrows=3, ncols=2, sharex=True, sharey=True)
>>> for i, _sh in enumerate(S_harm):
...     img = librosa.display.specshow(librosa.amplitude_to_db(_sh,
...                                                      ref=S.max()),
...                              sr=sr, y_axis='log', x_axis='time',
...                              ax=ax.flat[i])
...     ax.flat[i].set(title='h={:.3g}'.format(h_range[i]))
...     ax.flat[i].label_outer()
>>> fig.colorbar(img, ax=ax, format="%+2.f dB")