Books in the Signal Processing and Communications series

Emphasizes the intricate relationship between adaptive filtering and signal analysis - highlighting stochastic processes, signal representations and properties, analytical tools, and implementation methods. This book includes chapters on adaptive techniques in communications and rotation-based algorithms.

Showing how to design multiprocessor computer systems that are streamlined for multimedia applications, this work presents architectures and design methodologies for parallel systems in embedded DSP applications. It describes techniques for optimizing communication and synchronization. It summarizes the research on dataflow models.

A study of digital speech processing, synthesis and recognition. This second edition contains new sections on the international standardization of robust and flexible speech coding techniques, waveform unit concatenation-based speech synthesis, large vocabulary continuous-speech recognition based on statistical pattern recognition, and more.

Showing how to design multiprocessor computer systems that are streamlined for multimedia applications, this work presents architectures and design methodologies for parallel systems in embedded DSP applications. It describes unique techniques for optimizing communication and synchronization and provides several examples of practical applications that demonstrate the relevance of the techniques presented. This second edition updates the background material on existing embedded multiprocessors, including single-chip multiprocessors. It also summarizes the new research on dataflow models for signal processing that has been carried out since the publication of the first edition.

Links theoretical background with high-resolution methods used in wireless communications, brain signal analysis, and space-time radar signal processing. This work includes reviews of parametric high-resolution estimation and detection techniques. It offers processing solutions for adaptive beam forming and high-resolution direction finding.

Combining information from multiple sources, image fusion provides a more accurate description of a scene than any one of the individual source images alone. This book explores both the theoretical and applicative aspects of image fusion, illustrating its uses in concealed weapon detection, surveillance, medical diagnosis, and remote sensing.

Explains the transmission of image and video information over wireless channels. This title describes MPEG-4, the latest video coding standard. It discusses error resilient combined source channel image and video coders, and multiple access spread spectrum and future generation wireless video communication systems.

Based on years of instruction and field expertise, this volume offers the necessary tools to understand various scientific, computational, and technological aspects of speech processing. It also considers the complex transition from human speech processing to computer speech processing.

Presents various developments in the programming and design of programmable digital signal processors (PDSPs) with very-long-instruction word (VLIW) architecture, algorithm formulation and implementation, and modern applications for multimedia processing, communications, and industrial control.

Describing non-parametric and parametric theoretic classification and the training of discriminant functions, this title discusses dimensionality reduction and feature selection; computer system architectures; algorithms for solutions to common roadblocks in data processing; and, computing models including the Hamming net and the Hopfield net.

Addresses a selection of multimedia applications, programmable and custom architectures for the implementations of multimedia systems, and arithmetic architectures and design methodologies. This book covers various applications of digital signal processing algorithms in multimedia and details VHDL-based implementation approaches.

Addresses the issue of human visual system (HVS)-based perceptual quantitative quality metrics for digitally coded image and video as well as the issue of perceptual image and video coding. Introducing basic techniques, this text presents standard and popular coding structures, and gives a classification and analysis of various coding artifacts.

Providing a comprehensive treatment of various approaches to monochrome and digital halftoning, this title reflects methods and analysis tools that have been developed. It features four chapters that offer coverage of direct binary search, multitoning, lenticular printing, as well as blue and green noise. It is accompanied by a CD-ROM.