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+# lockstep-signal: Song and Accelerometer Beat Detector
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+This is the backend signal processing library for Lockstep. 
+lockstep-signal detects steps in accelerometer and beats in audio data. 
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+# References
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+- Zong, W., Heldt, T., Moody, G. B., & Mark, R. G. (2003, September). An open-source algorithm to detect onset of arterial blood pressure pulses. In Computers in Cardiology, 2003 (pp. 259-262). IEEE.