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In signal processing, cross-correlation is a measure of similarity of two waveforms as a function of a time-lag applied to one of them. This is also known as a sliding dot product or sliding inner-product. It is commonly used for searching a long signal for a shorter, known feature. It has applications in pattern recognition, single particle analysis, electron tomographic averaging, cryptanalysis, and neurophysiology.

For continuous functions f and g, the cross-correlation is defined as:

$(f\star g)(t)\ {\stackrel {\mathrm {def} }{=}}\int _{-\infty }^{\infty }f^{*}(\tau )\ g(\tau +t)\,d\tau ,$

where f* denotes the complex conjugate of f and t is the time lag.

Similarly, for discrete functions, the cross-correlation is defined as:

$(f\star g)[n]\ {\stackrel {\mathrm {def} }{=}}\sum _{m=-\infty }^{\infty }f^{*}[m]\ g[m+n].$

Visual comparison of convolution, cross-correlation and autocorrelation.

The cross-correlation is similar in nature to the convolution of two functions.

In an autocorrelation, which is the cross-correlation of a signal with itself, there will always be a peak at a lag of zero unless the signal is a trivial zero signal.

In probability theory and statistics, correlation is always used to include a standardising factor in such a way that correlations have values between −1 and +1, and the term cross-correlation is used for referring to the correlation corr(X, Y) between two random variables X and Y, while the "correlation" of a random vector X is considered to be the correlation matrix (matrix of correlations) between the scalar elements of X.

If $X$ and $Y$ are two independent random variables with probability density functions f and g, respectively, then the probability density of the difference $Y-X$ is formally given by the cross-correlation (in the signal-processing sense) $f\star g$; however this terminology is not used in probability and statistics. In contrast, the convolution $f*g$ (equivalent to the cross-correlation of f(t) and g(−t) ) gives the probability density function of the sum $X+Y$.

Explanation

As an example, consider two real valued functions $f$ and $g$ differing only by an unknown shift along the x-axis. One can use the cross-correlation to find how much $g$ must be shifted along the x-axis to make it identical to $f$. The formula essentially slides the $g$ function along the x-axis, calculating the integral of their product at each position. When the functions match, the value of $(f\star g)$ is maximized. This is because when peaks (positive areas) are aligned, they make a large contribution to the integral. Similarly, when troughs (negative areas) align, they also make a positive contribution to the integral because the product of two negative numbers is positive.

With complex-valued functions $f$ and $g$, taking the conjugate of $f$ ensures that aligned peaks (or aligned troughs) with imaginary components will contribute positively to the integral.

In econometrics, lagged cross-correlation is sometimes referred to as cross-autocorrelation.

Properties

• The cross-correlation of functions f(t) and g(t) is equivalent to the convolution of f*(−t) and g(t).  I.e.:

$f\star g=f^{*}(-t)*g.$

• If f is Hermitian, then $f\star g=f*g.$

• $(f\star g)\star (f\star g)=(f\star f)\star (g\star g)$

• Analogous to the convolution theorem, the cross-correlation satisfies:

${\mathcal {F}}\{f\star g\}=({\mathcal {F}}\{f\})^{*}\cdot {\mathcal {F}}\{g\},$

where ${\mathcal {F}}$ denotes the Fourier transform, and an asterisk again indicates the complex conjugate. Coupled with fast Fourier transform algorithms, this property is often exploited for the efficient numerical computation of cross-correlations. (see circular cross-correlation)

• The cross-correlation is related to the spectral density. (see Wiener–Khinchin theorem)

• The cross correlation of a convolution of f and h with a function g is the convolution of the cross-correlation of f and g with the kernel h:

$(f*h)\star g=h(-)*(f\star g)$

Time series analysis

In time series analysis, as applied in statistics and signal processing, the cross correlation between two time series describes the normalized cross covariance function.

Let $(X_{t},Y_{t})$ represent a pair of stochastic processes that are jointly wide sense stationary. Then the cross correlation is given by

$\gamma _{xy}(\tau )=\operatorname {E} [(X_{t}-\mu _{x})(Y_{t+\tau }-\mu _{y})],$

where $\mu _{x}$ and $\mu _{y}$ are the means of $X_{t}$ and $Y_{t}$ respectively.

The cross correlation of a pair of jointly wide sense stationary stochastic process can be estimated by averaging the product of samples measured from one process and samples measured from the other (and its time shifts). The samples included in the average can be an arbitrary subset of all the samples in the signal (e.g., samples within a finite time window or a sub-sampling of one of the signals). For a large number of samples, the average converges to the true cross-correlation.

Time delay analysis

Cross-correlations are useful for determining the time delay between two signals, e.g. for determining time delays for the propagation of acoustic signals across a microphone array. After calculating the cross-correlation between the two signals, the maximum (or minimum if the signals are negatively correlated) of the cross-correlation function indicates the point in time where the signals are best aligned, i.e. the time delay between the two signals is determined by the argument of the maximum, or arg max of the cross-correlation, as in

$\tau _{\mathrm {delay} }={\underset {t}{\operatorname {arg\,max} }}((f\star g)(t))$

Normalized cross-correlation

For image-processing applications in which the brightness of the image and template can vary due to lighting and exposure conditions, the images can be first normalized. This is typically done at every step by subtracting the mean and dividing by the standard deviation. That is, the cross-correlation of a template, $t(x,y)$ with a subimage $f(x,y)$ is

${\frac {1}{n}}\sum _{x,y}{\frac {(f(x,y)-{\overline {f}})(t(x,y)-{\overline {t}})}{\sigma _{f}\sigma _{t}}}$.

where $n$ is the number of pixels in $t(x,y)$ and $f(x,y)$, ${\overline {f}}$ is the average of f and $\sigma _{f}$ is standard deviation of f. In functional analysis terms, this can be thought of as the dot product of two normalized vectors. That is, if

$F(x,y)=f(x,y)-{\overline {f}}$

and

$T(x,y)=t(x,y)-{\overline {t}}$

then the above sum is equal to

$\left\langle {\frac {F}{\|F\|}},{\frac {T}{\|T\|}}\right\rangle$

where $\langle \cdot ,\cdot \rangle$ is the inner product and $\|\cdot \|$ is the L² norm. Thus, if f and t are real matrices, their normalized cross-correlation equals the cosine of the angle between the unit vectors F and T, being thus 1 if and only if F equals T multiplied by a positive scalar.

Normalized correlation is one of the methods used for template matching, a process used for finding incidences of a pattern or object within an image. It is also the 2-dimensional version of Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient.

Nonlinear systems

Caution must be applied when using cross correlation for nonlinear systems. In certain circumstances, which depend on the properties of the input, cross correlation between the input and output of a system with nonlinear dynamics can be completely blind to certain nonlinear effects. This problem arises because some moments can go to zero and this can incorrectly suggest that there is little correlation between two signals when in fact the two signals are strongly related by nonlinear dynamics.

See also

• Autocorrelation
• Autocovariance
• Coherence (signal processing)
• Convolution
• Correlation
• Cross-covariance
• Cross-spectrum
• Digital image correlation
• Phase correlation
• Scaled correlation
• Spectral density
• Wiener–Khinchin theorem

References

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External links

• Cross Correlation from Mathworld
• http://scribblethink.org/Work/nvisionInterface/nip.html
• http://www.phys.ufl.edu/LIGO/stochastic/sign05.pdf
• http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/oliver.hinton/eee305/Chapter6.pdf