Digital signal processing (DSP)

This book presents all aspects of situational awareness using acoustic signals.

This book contains a detailed presentation of general principles of sensitivity analysis as well as their applications to sample cases of remote sensing experiments.

This book demonstrates that a quantum communication system using the coherent light of a laser can achieve performance orders of magnitude superior to classical optical communicationsQuantum Communications provides the Masters and PhD signals or communications student with a complete basics-to-applications course in using the principles of quantum mechanics to provide cutting-edge telecommunications.

This book explains how can be created information extraction (IE) applications that are able to tap the vast amount of relevant information available in natural language sources: Internet pages, official documents such as laws and regulations, books and newspapers, and social web.

This book presents state of art research in speech emotion recognition.

This book interconnects two essential disciplines to study the perception of speech: Neuroscience and Quality of Experience, which to date have rarely been used together for the purposes of research on speech quality perception.

This book presents vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) from the their onset, gradually going into technical details, providing a clear understanding of both theoretical foundations and more practical investigation.

This book provides fresh insights into the cutting edge of multimedia data mining, reflecting how the research focus has shifted towards networked social communities, mobile devices and sensors.

This book provides a comprehensive review of the state-of-the art of optical signal processing technologies and devices.

This book is an attempt to bridge the gap between the instrumental principles of multi-dimensional time-correlated single photon counting (TCSPC) and typical applications of the technique.

Recently, we proposed a completely novel and efficient way to design differential beamforming algorithms for linear microphone arrays.

This book introduces audio watermarking methods for copyright protection, which has drawn extensive attention for securing digital data from unauthorized copying.

This book explores the design of ultra-low-power radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs), with communication distances ranging from a few centimeters to a few meters.

This book presents theoretical and practical aspects of the interaction between low and high level image processing.

The need of video compression in the modern age of visual communication cannot be over-emphasized.

The book reports on the author's original work to address the use of today's state-of-the-art smartphones for human physical activity recognition.

This book presents an overview of the state of the art in video coding technology.

This text reviews the field of digital image processing from the different perspectives offered by the separate domains of signal processing and pattern recognition.

The work presented in this book focuses on modeling audiovisual quality as perceived by the users of IP-based solutions for video communication like videotelephony.

This book contains the full papers presented at the MICCAI 2014 workshop on Computational Methods and Clinical Applications for Spine Imaging.

This textbook provides a concise but lucid explanation of the fundamentals of spread-spectrum systems with an emphasis on theoretical principles.

This book presents guidelines for a future device type: a tablet that allows ergonomic front- and back-of-device interaction.

The book addresses issues towards the design and development of Wireless Sensor Network based Smart Home and fusion of Real-Time Data for Wellness Determination of an elderly person living alone in a Smart Home.

This short book presents a framework for assessing the reliability and availability of visual quality control systems, placing particular emphasis on wavelet-based analysis.

This book is devoted to the analysis of measurement signals which requires specific mathematical operations like Convolution, Deconvolution, Laplace, Fourier, Hilbert, Wavelet or Z transform which are all presented in the present book.

This book addresses the problems that hinder image authentication in the presence of noise.

Though noise reduction and speech enhancement problems have been studied for at least five decades, advances in our understanding and the development of reliable algorithms are more important than ever, as they support the design of tailored solutions for clearly defined applications.

Developing environmental sensing and monitoring technologies become essential especially for industries that may cause severe contamination.

This book contains the extended and revised versions of a set of selected papers from the 2nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPRAM 2013), held in Barcelona, Spain, from 15 to 18 February, 2013.

This brief examines current research on cooperative device-to-device (D2D) communication as an enhanced offloading technology to improve the performance of cognitive radio cellular networks.

This book deals with timing attacks on cryptographic ciphers.

This book introduces low-noise and low-power design techniques for phase-locked loops and their building blocks.

"e;We live in the age of data.

This book provides a view of low-rank and sparse computing, especially approximation, recovery, representation, scaling, coding, embedding and learning among unconstrained visual data.

This book describes the design of switched-capacitor filter circuits using low gain amplifiers and demonstrates some techniques that can minimize the effects of parasitic capacitances during the design phase.

This SpringerBrief presents channel estimation strategies for the physical later network coding (PLNC) systems.

This book focuses on the design of a 3rd Order CT-[Sigma Delta]M where the integrator stages of the filter are implemented with Bipolar-Junction Transistors (BJT) differential pairs.

This book presents the selected results of the XI Scientific Conference Selected Issues of Electrical Engineering and Electronics (WZEE) which was held in Rzeszow and Czarna, Poland on September 27-30, 2013.

This book collects a series of research papers in the area of Image Processing and Communications which not only introduce a summary of current technology but also give an outlook of potential feature problems in this area.

Blind deconvolution is a classical image processing problem which has been investigated by a large number of researchers over the last four decades.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the latest trends/advances in subjective and objective quality evaluation for traditional visual signals, such as 2D images and video, as well as the most recent challenges for the field of multimedia quality assessment and processing, such as mobile video and social media.

This book presents an overview of the field of multimodal location estimation.

This book contains a selection of papers presented at the Second National Conference on Sensors held in Rome 19-21 February 2014.

This work combines interdisciplinary knowledge and experience from research fields of psychology, linguistics, audio-processing, machine learning, and computer science.

This brief focuses on medium access control (MAC) in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), and presents VeMAC, a novel MAC scheme based on distributed time division multiple access (TDMA) for VANETs.

This text covers state-of-the-art color image and video enhancement techniques.

This book focuses on partitional clustering algorithms, which are commonly used in engineering and computer scientific applications.

This book serves as a hands-on guide to RF tunable devices, circuits and subsystems.

This volume presents selected aspects of non-integer, or fractional order systems, whose analysis, synthesis and applications have increasingly become a real challenge for various research communities, ranging from science to engineering.

Paul Butzer, who is considered the academic father and grandfather of many prominent mathematicians, has established one of the best schools in approximation and sampling theory in the world.