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### (Updated) Design for Signal Processing Stack Exchange

Thank you to everyone who took the time to review and provide feedback on the Signal Processing Site Design. Based on the post’s feedback, we created a second option for the site’s color scheme. We ...
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### Anthropomorphising operators should be closed as matters of opinion

Should Q&A's which ask whether matrix operators are human, and can go off and make their own assumptions, such as here: Is spectral leakage due to windowing 'different' for the DTFT and ...
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### Questions on the usefulness or validity of published signal/image processing techniques

The DSP literature increases steadily with more or less useful papers. Sometime, a potential promising ideas get little notice. It could be that the paper (if not obviously wrong) has not reached its ...
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### Merging tags: stft, short-time-ft

My first tag question. I have just discovered that we have stft and short-time-ft tags. Should we merge them under one ...
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### Design for Signal Processing Stack Exchange

I'm Stéphane, a senior product designer at Stack Exchange. This community went through the first phase of graduation back in Sep. 2015 and now we're ready to give you the second phase; a unique ...
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### Closing as off-topic: Any clue why we have some Portuguese words in this ?

I decided to put a close vote on a question a few minutes ago and then I fell on some Portuguese words, a language I do love btw. Any clues ?
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### Few accepted answers at SE.DSP meta. Should we bother?

We sometimes complain about SE.DSP posts, lacking of quality, upvoted or accepted answers. I just remarked that the level of accepted answers at meta is not astonishingly huge. Should the most ...
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### Again, I am getting tired of all the stale, unanswered questions being dredged up by “Community”

Did you see the number of these stale questions? Can't we just kick Community's ass outa here?
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### Scipy questions/support?

I assume that some or even many here use SciPy for DSP. What do you use for support? I've found SciPy-user mailing list, but it doesn't seem that active. Is dsp.stackexchange.com useful/suitable for ...
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### What should moderators do when someone is “astroturfing” the site?

Just now I was notified by the system of a user posting the same answer to multiple questions (four at last count). The answer pointed to the user's github repository and a video that I believe they ...
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### Name change for DSP.SE?

Based on this question, there are many who feel that a image processing and computer vision should be given higher visibility on this site. The separate proposal for a CV/IP site has not succeeded, ...
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### Are questions related to camera calibration on topic here?

I'm having a hard time getting answers for openCV based questions on SO. I understand that programming related questions should be on SO. However, I am also doing camera calibration and have some ...
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### what symbol should we encourage peeps to use for convolution? for “equal to by definition”?

of course the traditional symbol is the six-pointed asterisk $*$ or $\ast$. of course, the problem with that is that all of these programming languages use the asterisk for multiplication. MattL ...
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### should we encourage or expect posters to adopt the current common notation, $x[n]$, for discrete-time signals?

one of the things i remember that impressed me about my first exposure to Oppenheim & Schafer was the formal and rigorous use of math. one thing they did early on was to adopt a different ...
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### How to correctly write units (second, Hertz) in formulae?

I cannot recommend enough the package siunitx in latex for unit and number formatting. What is the method of choice to write ...
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### i thought i was able to vote to close questions?

there's a question from a new person with rep=1 that is simply a photo of a page from a textbook. as two close votes already, but it says it needs 3 more. but there doesn't appear to be a way for me ...
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### StackOverflow to CrossValidated to Signal Processing?

I asked a question on StackOverflow that users migrated to CrossValidated. Another user recommended Signal Processing, and I think SP might be a better home. I don't think I can move the question ...
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### Hyphenated tags not working?

While trying to re-tag this question I've been unable to remove the tag kalman and replace it with kalman-filters. Whenever I ...
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### Can you see the “This question belongs on another site in the Stack Exchange network” off-topic option?

I've been seeing lots of questions (well a few) marked as "off-topic" for DSP.SE, with just the "This question does not appear to be about signal processing within the scope defined in the help center....
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### 2016 Community Moderator Election Results

Signal Processing's 1st moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the 3 new moderators are: They'll be replacing the pro tempore crew shortly — please thank them ...
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### Deleted question - bounty refund

I just found out that one of the questions I offered bounty for, turned out to be deleted. I am wondering whether it is viable/possible to refund bounty on such questions? Here is a link. The ...
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### 2016 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire

In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. I asked for questions in an earlier thread but we didn't get any new suggestions. Therefore, we'll just ...
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### how is this ranked-choice election being decided/tabulated?

i have to admit i was a little surprized to see that it was ranked choice. that's a good move. is it decided using Single-Transferable Vote (STV) which is often called Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) ...
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### 2016 Community Moderator Election

The 2016 Community Moderator Election is now underway! Community moderator elections have three phases: Nomination phase Primary phase Election phase Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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### 2016 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection

The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here. In connection with the moderator election, we will be holding a Q&...
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### MathJax not rendering

Recently when writing/editing an answer, MathJax has at some point stopped rendering formulas and will only start rendering again if I refresh the page. I've had the problem for maybe a month now. ...
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### When is an “edit” a separate response?

With reference to this response that was edited recently: The editor felt that the response (marked as accepted long ago by now) needed editing in terms of content (not presentation) but from my ...
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### Copying tag wiki from a sister site

Is it allowed (okay) to copy a tag's wiki from another SE site to our site ? Adapting it, and of course citing the SE source. Same exact tag on both sites but no wiki on DSP SE while it's fully ...
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It's 2016 now, and we've made some changes to the sidebar size, and so with it, we now have finally reached the time to start Community Promotion Ads on your graduated site! What are Community ...
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### Congratulations! Signal Processing is graduating!

It's a big day. You've been cleared for graduation by the Stack Exchange Community Team! Signal Processing met our threshold for graduation-worthy sites and after a review, the Community Team ...
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### Is improper use of “FFT” when the author really means “DFT” worth correcting?

I find it annoying and confusing when people write "FFT", which stands for "fast Fourier transform", when they really mean "discrete Fourier transform", which is abbreviated "DFT". The FFT is a ...
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### How to add a photo to my profile?

I was unable to find the answer to the following question: How do I add a picture of myself to my profile (account) as, say, Peter K did?
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### What does “modified one hour ago” mean?

Often when I go the StackExchange Sig. Proc. web page I'll see a question listed near the top of the page indicating that the question was "modified one hour ago Community." Then I consider adding an ...
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### What types of DSP jobs are out there besides…?

I'm in the middle of looking for a new fulltime gig while consulting in the northeast. Decided not to move west (where there are a ton of jobs) because my extended family is here. I have found that ...
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### Should there be a separate Image Processing & Computer Vision SE site?

There is a new proposal in Area 51 to start up an Image Processing & Computer Vision site. I had my doubts about it: Will this mean that DSP.SE and Cross Validated SE will lose members to the ...
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### Would you please forward a message?

I would very much like to send a private e-mail to your site's subscriber who goes by the name of "johnwbyrd". I imagine you rightfully don't give out e-mail addresses, but would you please notify "...
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### Are there remote sensing experts who attend this community?

Regarding this discussion that took place about 1 year ago and considering all the comments, I want to have a similar discussion here since Signal Processing is a community related to remote sensing ...
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### Is remote sensing somehow related to signal processing?

I wonder if remote sensing is related to signal processing and if I can have an advertisement like the following here in this meta site? Are there remote sensing experts who attend this community?
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### Is this SAR-related question on-topic?

I wonder where is the best place to ask this question. It is about SAR systems that is used in remote sensing but involves signal processing. The only reason that makes me dubious about asking this ...
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### what can be done to enjoin “Community” from repeatedly reincarnating dead questions?

i'm 2 points away from becoming whatever you become at 3500. i think there are other tools that open up for me then. i dunno if i care about that or not. but what i am getting tired of seeing are ...
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### What can we do about very low quality question?

I mean, most of the titles aren't even questions. Some people don't even write complete sentences. "Low quality" here is related to the amount of effort put before and during question writing. It has ...
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### What should we do for queries for term definitions?

There are quite a few questions like: What is the definition of ...? What is the difference between ... and ...? (asking for definitions of the terms) IMHO these are not DSP questions and should be ...
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### Preponderance of Greek authorship in digital signal processing?

If ever there were a 'meta' question...am I just engaging in confirmation bias because it would be strange if this were true or is there an anomalous interest in Greek university faculty in signal ...
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### Are questions about physical applicability of noise models appropriate here?

I'd like to ask the following question: Why are physical noise processes (e.g. Johnson noise from a resistor) frequently assumed to be Gaussian processes? It seems that the central limit theorem, ...
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### Is this question appropriate?

The question https://dsp.stackexchange.com/questions/24108/what-are-hot-research-topics-in-computer-vision-and-image-processing-for-phd-res doesn't seem appropriate on two accounts: It is too vast ...
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### Area of DSP dealing with engineering of realtime systems?

I'm still new to DSP, but it seems like there is a huge gap between DSP theory and actually implementing algorithms on microcontrollers and DSPs. What area of engineering deals with interrupt service ...
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### After making a large edit to a question, how to make sure it pops up on people's radar?

I'm struggling to get a response for my question and I made a lot of edits to it to make it appeal to a larger audience (added figure, code examples, better structuring, headlines, etc.) Yet I have ...
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### Why there is no forum like DSP educators or tag like teaching?

There is http://www.matheducators.stackexchange.com/ which is a question and answer site for those involved in the field of teaching mathematics. Also, there is a tag https://math.stackexchange....