Motions in The Time-frequency Distribution - Dilation

Dilation

Dilation is like doing scaling on one of the axis and area is the same after the process. When a > 1, it's expanding on time axis, and narrowing on frequency axis ;vice versa when a < 1.

STFT, Gabor:

WDF:

When this kind of dilation is applied to audio, it causes a chipmunk effect.

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