Books in the Signal Processing and Its Applications series

The area of video source coding is one of the key challenges in the worldwide push to deliver full video communications over wireless devices. This book reviews progress in this field and looks at how to solve some of the most important technology issues.

Covering various recognized coding algorithms, this book explains their basic theory. It contains details on coding standards. It is suitable for graduates and researchers working on image coding and transmission, and for those in the related areas of computer vision and multimedia developments.

Describes the components of computer-based spoken dialog system. This book reviews the complete chain from microphone to speech synthesis, and provides methods, models, and algorithms for building a working system. It also covers transducers and microphone arrays, speech analysis and transformation, acoustic modeling and model training, and more.

Radio frequency (RF) and intermediate frequency (IF) signal processing is assuming a fundamental importance, owing to its ability to multiply a system's capabilities in a cost-effective manner. This book covers the important front-end RF subsystems of active phased arrays, and offers array designers opportunities in signal processing.

Personal multimedia communication is a major growth area in engineering. This book aims to present an integrated view of advanced radio systems, network architectures and source coding that demonstrates the state-of-the-art this field. It also contains ideas, design examples, and advanced techniques for research staff, engineers, and others.

"Artificial Vision" is a rapidly growing discipline, aiming to build computational models of the visual functionalities in humans, as well as machines that emulate them. This book brings together review articles, and covers topics including image processing, computational geometry, optics, pattern recognition, and computer science.