Short-Time Fourier Transform and Its InverseIvan W
SelesnickApril 14, 20091IntroductionThe short-time Fourier transform (STFT) of a signal consists of the Fourier transform of overlappingwindowed blocks of the signal
In this note, we assume the overlapping is by 50% and we derive theperfect reconstruction condition for the window function, denoted w(n)
The window w(n) is assumed to be supported (non-zero) for n = 0,
, N −1
For example,Figure 1 shows a window of length N = 10
In this example, the window is a symmetric half-cyclesine window
The N-point half-cycle sine window is given byw(n) = sin πN (n + 0
5),n = 0,
, N −1
( 1 )T h efi g u r eshows several shifted windows
The shifted windows are shifted by half the length of thewindow
(In practice, the window is much lo