The unprecedented growth in the range of multimedia services offered these days by modern telecommunication systems has been made possible only because of the advancements in signal processing technologies and algorithms. In the area of telecommunications, application of signal processing allows for new generations of systems to achieve performance close to theoretical limits, while in the area of multimedia, signal processing the underlying technology making possible realization of such applications that not so long ago were considered just a science fiction or were not even dreamed about. We all learnt to adopt those achievements very quickly, but often the research enabling their introduction takes many years and a lot of efforts. This book presents a group of invited contributions, some of which have been based on the papers presented at the International Symposium on DSP for Communication Systems held in Coolangatta on the Gold Coast, Australia, in December 2003. Part 1 of the book deals with applications of signal processing to transform what we hear or see to the form that is most suitable for transmission or storage for a future retrieval. The first three chapters in this part are devoted to processing of speech and other audio signals. The next two chapters consider image coding and compression, while the last chapter of this part describes classification of video sequences in the MPEG domain.

Product Description: Advanced Signal Processing for Communication Systems consists of 20 contributions from researchers and experts.The first group of chapters deals with the audio and video processing for communications applications, including topics ranging from multimedia content delivery over the Internet, through the speech processing and recognition to recognition of non-speech sounds that can be attributed to the surrounding environment...read more

Product Description: Digital Signal Processing for Communication Systems examines the plans for the future and the progress that has already been made, in the field of DSP and its applications to communication systems. The book pursues the progression from communication and information theory through to the implementation, evaluation and performance enhancing of practical communication systems using DSP technology...read more

Product Description: It is a great pleasure to be asked to write the Preface for this book on trellis decoding of error correcting block codes. The subject is extremely significant both theoretically and practically, and is very timely because of recent devel­ opments in the microelectronic implementation and range of application of error-control coding systems based on block codes...read more

Product Description: The mathematical theory and practice of cryptography and coding underpins the provision of effective security and reliability for data communication, processing, and storage. Theoretical and implementational advances in the fields of cryptography and coding are therefore a key factor in facilitating the growth of data communications and data networks of various types...read more

Product Description: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Communication Theory and Applications, held at the Charlotte Mason College, in Ambleside, Cumbria, UK, in July 1999. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book contains papers presented at a special Symposium, Communications and Coding, held to celebrate the 60th birthday of Professor Paddy Farrell on 25th January 1998. Professor Farrell has made an outstanding contribution to the fields of digital communications in general, and error control in particular, with many significant publications and invited papers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Discusses various aspects of communication coding and signal processing focusing on techniques for decoding. Considers theoretical problems in error control coding, including the prediction of code properties and problems of sequence design and cryptography.