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notebooks / icom / encoder.py
#%%
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

import math

# encode a message using poisson rate coding
def encode_message(symbol: str,
                   signal_freq: float,
                   duration: int,
                   **kwargs):
  codebook = kwargs.get("codebook",None)
  noise_freq = kwargs.get("noise_rate", 0)

  if codebook is None: raise TypeError("Invalid code book.")


  freq = signal_freq + noise_freq
  # generate spikes more than the required size.
  size = math.ceil(2 * freq * duration)

  isi = np.random.exponential(scale = 1/freq, size=size)
  spikes = np.cumsum(isi) # convert intervals to a train

  # filter out-of-bound spikes
  spikes = spikes[np.where(spikes<duration)]

  # ! add leak spikes

  return spikes

# generate spike train with signal rate of 2 and noise rate of 2.
spikes = encode_message("A", 4, duration=2, codebook=['A','B'],noise_rate=0)
spikes = encode_message("A", 4, duration=2, codebook=['A','B'],noise_rate=0)


#%% [markdown]

# the following code plots signal train alognside the noise spikes.

# generate signal spikes
signal_spikes = encode_message("A", 5, duration=10, codebook=['A','B'])
# generate noise spikes
noise_spikes = encode_message("", 1, duration=10, codebook=[])

spikes = np.concatenate((signal_spikes, noise_spikes))

spikes = np.sort(np.unique(spikes))

plt.eventplot(spikes, color = "white")
plt.eventplot(signal_spikes, color='green')
plt.eventplot(noise_spikes, color='red')
plt.show()

#%%