Customer Reviews

Time Frequency Analysis: Theory and Applications

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This book is written clearly and well by a leading researcher in the area of time-frequency analysis. The main weakness, and the reason I've knocked off one star, is that the book deals exclusively with continuous-time representations. If you are specifically interested in discrete-time implementation of time-frequency representations, then this book may not be for you.

I agree with the above reviewer - this text is more analytical than I would have liked. The organization was not very helpful for understanding the big picture - how are the different methods for time-frequency analysis related? As an engineer, most of this book was not very useful for me, although there are some nice chapters (e.g. the Wigner distribution). In addition, it is somewhat out of date (wavelets are called scale here), has some errors in the proofs, and could be updated with a new edition.

This book gives a concise and comprehensive introduction to the main approaches to TF analysis. It is an essential reference for research work in this field... Well worth the price!

I like this book... while many books on the subject, or similar Filter Banks and/or Wavelets, seem written for the expert in the field, the treatment given here is great... the author's assumption on the power of example is valid and very important to differentiate this book from others[*]. While there is little room for confusion on a math-heavy textbook, this book gives enough math and more than a sufficient level of discussion to get the subtleties across... and then follow the math! The writing style is very fluid, yet not distracting from the objective of getting the technical substance through. It reads like a book written by someone passionate about the subject.

now... a book with implementation complexity and issues would be very nice.

[*] I perused through the other books that I saw at the store... so this is not a conclusive statement about the other books.

I agree with previous reviewer that this book ignore the discrete version of time-frequency analysis area. Although the author provide complete theory of time-frequency analysis, he did not give us a concrete application algorithm. This may due to the author background, from theoretical physics, not from digital signal processing.