Springer, 2019. — 174 p. This book explains the philosophy of the polar encoding and decoding technique. Polar codes are one of the most recently discovered capacity-achieving channel codes. What sets them apart from other channel codes is the fact that polar codes are designed mathematically and their performance is mathematically proven. The book develops related fundamental...
Springer, 2019. — 320 p. The volume of data is rapidly increasing due to the development of the technology of information and communication. This data comes mostly in the form of streams. Learning from this ever-growing amount of data requires flexible learning models that self-adapt over time. In addition, these models must take into account many constraints: (pseudo)...
Springer, 2019. — 70 p. Human beings recognize speaker, language, emotion, and speech using multiple cues present in speech signal and evidences are combined to arrive at a decision. Humans use several prosodic cues for these recognition tasks. But conventional automatic speaker, language, emotion, and speech recognition systems mostly rely on spectral/cepstral features which...
Springer, 2019, — 302 p. This volume concludes our three-volume series titled "Spline and spline wavelet methods with applications to signal and image processing". This book provides a practical guide, complete with accompanying MatLAB software, to many different types of polynomial and discrete splines and spline-based wavelets, multiwavelets and wavelet frames in signal and...
Master thesis. — University of Edinburgh, 2009. — 69 p. This project investigates the applicability of Gaussian processes (GPs) as a prediction method for image inpainting, a process which reconstructs lost or deteriorated parts of an image based on the remaining portion. The use of GPs in this context not only allows us to make a single prediction for the missing region but...
CRC Press, 2018. — 273 p. — ISBN13 978-1-1380-3266-8. The ice concentration data on a global scale are available on a daily basis due to microwave satellite sensors. Image processing for sea ice is vital to estimate the sea ice properties and understand the behavior of sea ice especially on a relatively small scale. Currently, sea ice concentration is estimated from...
Springer, 2018. — 189 p. This book introduces four multibiometric techniques with CS theory: one technique for the protection of biometric data at the communication channel between two biometric data and three techniques for the protection of biometric data at the system storage of the multibiometric system. These watermarking techniques, namely, discrete wavelet transform...
Springer, 2018. — 258 p. Digital image processing is a popular, rapidly growing area of electrical and computer engineering. Digital image processing has enabled various intelligent applications such as face recognition, signature recognition, iris recognition, forensics, automobile detection, and military vision applications. Its growth is leveraged by technological...
CRC Press., 2018. — 209 p. This book describes the methods and algorithms for image pre-processing and recognition. These methods are based on a parallel shift technology of the imaging copy, as well as simple mathematical operations to allow the generation of a minimum set of features to describe and recognize the image. This book also describes the theoretical foundations of...
Birkhäuser, 2018. — 434 p. — ISBN: 3319686747. The signals and systems course is not only an important element for undergraduate electrical engineering students but the fundamentals and techniques of the subject are essential in all the disciplines of engineering. Signals and systems analysis has a long history, with its techniques and fundamentals found in broad areas of...
Springer, 2018. — 238 p. This book discusses Moore finite state machines (FSMs) implemented with field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) including look-up table (LUT) elements and embedded memory blocks (EMBs). To minimize the number of LUTs in FSM logic circuits, the authors propose replacing a state register with a state counter. They also put forward an approach allowing...
Springer, 2018. — 238 p. This book represents an invaluable and up-to-date international exchange of research, case studies and best practice to tackle the challenges of digital technology, computer-aided design, 3D modeling, prototyping machines and computational design. With contributions from leading experts in the field of industrial design and cultural heritage, it is...
Springer, 2015. — 307 p. The research book is focused on the recent advances in computer vision methodologies and innovations in practice. The Contributions include: Human Action Recognition: Contour-Based and Silhouette-based Approaches. The Application of Machine Learning Techniques to Real Time Audience Analysis System. Panorama Construction from Multi-view Cameras in...
Springer, 2018. — 351 p. The research book is a continuation of the authors’ previous works, which are focused on recent advances in computer vision methodologies and technical solutions using conventional and intelligent paradigms. The book gathers selected contributions addressing aerial and satellite image processing and related fields. Topics covered include novel tensor...
Springer, 2018. — 329 p. The aim of this book is to give a concrete answer to the following question: Can compressed sensing effectively yield optimized means for signal acquisition, encoding, and encryption, either in analog or digital circuits and systems, when implementation constraints are considered in its realization? The reason why this question is important is that...
Springer, 2018. — 453 p. Medical diagnosis is an extremely complicated task due to the processes involved, which are vital to deciding the correct treatment procedure. Consequently, automation of medical image classification not only plays an important role in accurate diagnosis, it also serves to teach. Due to the developments in imaging modalities, considerable interest is...
Springer, 2018. — 70 p. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in signal quality assessment techniques for physiological signals, and chiefly focuses on ECG (electrocardiography) and PPG (photoplethysmography) signals obtained from wearable sensors in ambulatory clinical settings. It presents the techniques currently proposed by leading researchers,...
Springer, 2018. — 82 p. With the invention of less expensive means of internet access, voice communication via social media is on the rise, which often comprises threats and distortions. Incorrect speaker/speech identification may sometimes lead to ambiguities in speaker identification and misunderstandings. Therefore, proper identification of speech is a must in speech...
Springer, 2000. — 676 p. In 1992 it seemed very difficult to answer the question whether it would be possible to develop a portable system for the automatic recognition and translation of spontaneous speech. Previous research work on speech processing had focused on read speech only and international projects aimed at automated text translation had just been terminated without...
Springer, 1994. — 248 p. The Verbmobil System currently under development in Germany would input speech in a source language dialogue, translate it, and output synthesized speech in a target language, all in real time under the conditions of face-to-face dialogue. This preliminary study is an assessment of the state of the art of the speech recognition and machine translation...
Springer, 1993. — 576 p. In a declarative programming language a computation is expressed in a static fashion, as a list of declarations. A program in such a language is regarded as a specification that happens to be executable as well. In this textbook we focus on a subclass of the declarative languages, the functional programming languages, sometimes called applicative...
Hindustan Book Agency, 2003. — 187 p. This book on game theory evolved from introductory courses in game theory given in the Netherlands in Nijmegen and Tilburg for students in mathematics and students in econometrics and Operations Research, respectively. After a general introduction in chapter 1, the chapters 2 to 9 deal with non-cooperative game theory. Central are here Nash...
Springer, 2018. — 477 p. The industrial processes of high complexity are composed of various units, which are used in different working environments. The total productive processes change frequently with time, and the changes of the model are uncertain. In addition, the relevant industrial products demand of high quality and huge amount, which is one of the most challenging...
Springer, 2018. — 86 p. In the past decades, recurrent neural networks have been widely investigated by many scientific and engineering communities. In particular, Hopfield neural network, originally designed for real-time optimization, triggers the studies on recurrent neural networks as a powerful online optimization tool. Recurrent neural network-based optimization methods...
Dissertation. — Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 1985. — 250 p. There has been a substantial interest in the last few decades in the problem of training computers to recognize human speech. In spite of the concentrated efforts of conscientious teams of researchers, however, the solution remains elusive, unless the task is kept so restricted as to be uninteresting. These...
Springer, 2018. — 416 p. We describe in this book recent advances on the use of fuzzy logic in design of hybrid intelligent systems based on nature-inspired optimization and their application in areas such as intelligent control and robotics, pattern recognition, medical diagnosis, time series prediction, and optimization of complex problems. The book is organized into nine...
ISTE Press/Elsevier, 2017. — 236 p. This book is a special issue dedicated to exploring the relationship between natural language processing and cognitive science, and the contribution of computer science to these two fields. Poibeau and Vasishth noted that research interest in cognitive issues may have been given less attention because researchers from the cognitive science field...
Springer, 2018. — 464 p. The International Conference on Mathematics and Decision Science, ICMDS 2016, September 12–15, 2016, was arranged at Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China (www.icodm2020.com). Chairman Prof. Bing-Yuan Cao, Chairman of the Program Committee Prof. Seyed Hadi Nasseri, and Chairman of the Iranian Operations Research Society Prof. Nezamedin Mahdavi-Amiri...
Springer, 2018. — 417 p. The recent progress on machine learning and signal processing has enabled the development of technologies for automatic analysis of sound scenes and events by computational means. This has attracted several research groups and companies to investigate this new field, which has potential in several applications and also has several research challenges....
Springer, 2018. — 203 p. It is a delightful pleasure to submit the consecutive book devoted to Human- Computer Systems Interaction (H-CSI). The previous monographic volume (H-CSI: Backgrounds and Application 3, the 300th Volume of AICS) received very good assessment from the scientific community; it also fulfilled our anticipation as a source of up-to-date knowledge in the...
Springer, 2018. — 327 p. Nature-inspired algorithms, especially those based on swarm intelligence, have been successfully applied to solve a variety of optimization problems in real-world applications, and thus their popularity has also increased significantly in recent years. The applications of nature-inspired optimization algorithms have been very diverse, from engineering...
Springer, 2018. — 118 p. The ideas introduced in this book explore the relationships among big data, machine learning and granular computing. In many studies, machine learning has been considered as a powerful tool of big data processing. The relationship between big data and machine learning is very similar to the relationship between resources and human learning. In this...
Springer, 2018. — 193 p. For more than four decades the complexity of circuits and systems has grown according to Moore’s Law resulting in chips of several billion components. While already the synthesis on the different levels from the initial specification down to the layout is a challenging task, for all the individual steps the correctness has to be considered. In the past,...
Springer, 2018. — 272 p. This book provides a new perspective on emotion in artificial systems. It presents an insightful explanation of how emotion might emerge deep inside the systems, and emotional behaviour could be seen as a consequence of their internal management. The final approach attempts to account for a range of events associated with emotion, from functional and...
Springer, 2013. — 885 p. This book is devoted to the acoustics of musical instruments. Its prime aim is to highlight the physical principles that govern the production and radiation of sound by these complex sources. It is the result of several years of work which would not have been possible without the active and enthusiastic contribution of colleagues to whom we wish to...
Springer, 2016. — 338 p. This work is the result of more than 10 years of research in the area of MRI from a signal and noise perspective. Our interest has always been to properly model the noise that affects our signals, in order to design the best possible algorithms based on that knowledge. All this time we have found many great works that were coming along with our own...
ISTE/John Wiley, 2014. — 89 p. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a well-established medical technology that can deliver two-dimensional (2D) or three-dimensional (3D) reconstructed images of internal body tissue. A variant, functional MRI (fMRI), has been used to study brain activity. The contributions of MRI to medicine were recognized in the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology...
ISTE/John Wiley, 2014. — 138 p. This book presents an algorithm for the detection of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal in a cognitive radio context by means of a joint and iterative channel and noise estimation technique. Based on the minimum mean square criterion, it performs an accurate detection of a user in a frequency band, by achieving a...
Dover, 1990. — 608 p. Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics is a landmark book in its field, hailed for its astonishingly clear, delightfully readable statement of everything of acoustical importance to music-making. Though directed primarily to the music student who is taking an acoustics course, it is essential reading for all musicians, music lovers, and audiophiles eager to expand...
Springer, 2018. — 380 p. This book presents a collection of contributions in the field of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). The themes addressed are multidisciplinary in nature, and closely connected in their ultimate aim to identify features from dynamic realistic signal exchanges and invariant machine representations that can be exploited to improve the quality of life of...
CRC Press, 2018. — 205 p. It gives me great satisfaction in handing over the book Random Signal Processing to all my beloved UG, PG, and Ph.D. students, who are eagerly waiting for it to be published. The difficulties encountered by my students while carrying out their research work inspired me to write a student-friendly book that will be rich in technical content. Random...
Springer, 2018. — 144 p. This book presents the consolidated acoustic data for all phones in Standard Colloquial Bengali (SCB), commonly known as Bangla, a Bengali language used by 350 million people in India, Bangladesh, and the Bengali diaspora. The book analyzes the real speech of selected native speakers of the Bangla dialect to ensure that a proper acoustical database is...
Springer, 2018. — 341 p. This book introduces readers to innovative bio-inspired computing techniques for image processing applications. It demonstrates how a significant drawback of image processing – not providing the simultaneous benefits of high accuracy and less complexity – can be overcome, proposing bio-inspired methodologies to help do so. Besides computing techniques,...
Springer, 2018. — 661 p. Analysis and synthesis cosine-/sine-modulated filter banks are perfect reconstruction filter banks that are used for the time-to-frequency transformation of an audio data block, and vice versa, many sub-band/transform-based schemes for high-quality lossy/lossless compression of digital audio signals. These include the modified discrete cosine and sine...
Диссертация, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2008. — 156 p. Automatic speaker recognition is the use of a machine to identify an individual from a spoken sentence. Recently, this technology has been undergone an increasing use in applications such as access control, transaction authentication, law enforcement, forensics, and system customisation, among others. One of the...
Springer, 2018. — 108 p. In the past few decades, hand gesture recognition has been considered to be an easy and natural technique for human–machine interaction. Many applications have been developed and enhanced based on hand gesture recognition. These applications range from mobile phones to advanced robotics and from gaming to medical science. In most of the existing...
Artech House, 2018. — 306 p. Based on the bestselling Artech House classic title, Hilbert Transforms Signal Processing, this comprehensive new resource introduces complex and hypercomplex analytic signals and their applications. The reader will find lengthy descriptions of the theory of multidimensional complex and hypercomplex signals illustrated with numerous examples and...
Springer, 2017. — 105 p. In this book, a new model of modular neural network based on a granular approach, the combination of their responses, and the optimization by hierarchical genetic algorithms are introduced. The new model of modular neural networks is applied to human recognition, and for this four databases of biometric measures are used; face, iris, ear, and voice. The...
Springer, 2017. — 694 p. This book explores recursive architectures in designing progressive hyperspectral imaging algorithms. In particular, it makes progressive imaging algorithms recursive by introducing the concept of Kalman filtering in algorithm design so that hyperspectral imagery can be processed not only progressively sample by sample or band by band but also...
Springer, 2017. — 138 p. Emerging Spatial Big Data (SBD) has transformative potential in solving many grand societal challenges such as water resource management, food security, disaster response, and transportation. However, significant computational challenges exist in analyzing SBD due to the unique spatial characteristics including spatial autocorrelation, anisotropy,...