Time Frequency Analysis: Theory and Applications (Prentice Hall Signal Processing Series) [FACSIMILE] (Paperback)

by Leon Cohen (Author)

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Featuring traditional coverage as well as new research results that, until now, have been scattered throughout the professional literature, this book brings together—in simple language—the basic ideas and methods that have been developed to study natural and man-made signals whose frequency content changes with time—e.g., speech, sonar and radar, optical images, mechanical vibrations, acoustic signals, biological/biomedical and geophysical signals. Covers time analysis, frequency analysis, and scale analysis; time-bandwidth relations; instantaneous frequency; densities and local quantities; the short time Fourier Transform; time-frequency analysis; the Wigner representation; time-frequency representations; computation methods; the synthesis problem; spatial-spatial/frequency representations; time-scale representations; operators; general joint representations; stochastic signals; and higher order time-frequency distributions. Illustrates each concept with examples and shows how the methods have been extended to other variables, such as scale. For engineers, acoustic scientists, medical scientists and developers, mathematicians, physicists, and mangers working in the fields of acoustics, sonar, radar, image processing, biomedical devices, communication.

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Featuring traditional coverage as well as new research results that, until now, have been scattered throughout the professional literature, this book brings together—in simple language—the basic ideas and methods that have been developed to study natural and man-made signals whose frequency content changes with time—e.g., speech, sonar and radar, optical images, mechanical vibrations, acoustic signals, biological/biomedical and geophysical signals. Covers time analysis, frequency analysis, and scale analysis; time-bandwidth relations; instantaneous frequency; densities and local quantities; the short time Fourier Transform; time-frequency analysis; the Wigner representation; time-frequency representations; computation methods; the synthesis problem; spatial-spatial/frequency representations; time-scale representations; operators; general joint representations; stochastic signals; and higher order time-frequency distributions. Illustrates each concept with examples and shows how the methods have been extended to other variables, such as scale. For engineers, acoustic scientists, medical scientists and developers, mathematicians, physicists, and mangers working in the fields of acoustics, sonar, radar, image processing, biomedical devices, communication.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; Facsimile edition (December 11, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0135945321
• ISBN-13: 978-0135945322
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #507,904 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great for Maths + Discussion; Weak on Implementation, August 9, 2000

By	Peter J. Kootsookos (West Hartford, CT, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars more for mathematician than engineer, March 28, 2001

By	hivequeen - See all my reviews

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.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars very good reference for beginners to this area, July 2, 1999

By A Customer

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!