Noise (spectral phenomenon)

Noise refers to many types of random or unwanted signals, most commonly acoustic noise, but also including the following:

Acoustic noise

In transportation

Other acoustic noise

  • Noise (acoustic), technical term for any sound, even deliberate
  • Artificial noise, in spectator sports
  • Background noise, in acoustics, any sound other than the monitored one
  • Comfort noise, used in telecommunications to fill silent gaps
  • Grey noise, random noise with a psychoacoustic adjusted spectrum
  • Industrial noise, relevant to hearing damage and industrial hygiene
  • Noise pollution, that affects negatively the quality of life

Noise in biology

Noise in computer graphics

Noise in computer graphics refers to various pseudo-random functions used to create textures, including:

  • Gradient noise, created by interpolation of a lattice of pseudorandom gradients
  • Simplex noise, a method for constructing an n-dimensional noise function comparable to Perlin noise
  • Simulation noise, a function that creates a divergence-free field
  • Value noise, created by interpolation of a lattice of pseudorandom values; differs from gradient noise
  • Wavelet noise, an alternative to Perlin noise which reduces problems of aliasing and detail loss
  • Worley noise, a noise function introduced by Steven Worley in 1996

Noise in electronics and radio

Noise in mathematics

  • Any one of many statistical types or colors of noise, such as
    • White noise, which has constant power spectral density
    • Gaussian noise, with a probability density function equal to that of the normal distribution
    • Pink noise, with spectral density inversely proportional to frequency
    • Brownian noise or "brown" noise, with spectral density inversely proportional to the square of frequency
  • Pseudorandom noise, in cryptography, artificial signal that can pass for random
  • Statistical noise, a colloquialism for recognized amounts of unexplained variation in a sample
  • Noise-based logic, where logic values are different stochastic processes
  • Noise print, a statistical signature of ambient noise, used in its suppression

Other types of noise

Measures of noise intensity

See also

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