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An airplane is leaving Warsaw (the capital of Poland), and gets caught in a terrible winter storm. The plane rolls, pitches and yaws. The crew is expecting the plane to crash or break up at any time. ...
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Recommendation for book - Writing DSP code in C
I can recommend you two books about DSP for C language.
Embree P. M. - C Language Algorithms for Digital Signal Processing
It is old and you can easily get it second-hand for a decent price. It ...
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Fields of math needed for digital filter design
To get started:
Complex numbers
The frequency response of a filter is easier to understand complex-valued, describing both the magnitude frequency response and the phase frequency response. You will ...
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In high school math class I finally got the courage up to ask the cute and brainy girl at the front row out on a date. She just looked at me with a discouraging face and as she waved her hand face ...
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Recommendation for book - Writing DSP code in C
I'd recommend Introduction to Signal Processing by S.J. Orfanidis. It's a great book with a good mix of theory and practice, and it also has code examples in C and Matlab. Once you've worked through ...
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Fields of math needed for digital filter design
If you have the balls to learn math by yourself. The two fields of Mathematics that you need to dominate in order to do filter design are: Functional Analysis and convex optimization.
Pretty much ...
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Best "Advanced DSP" book
Assuming you have completed Oppenheim's Discrete-Time Signal Processing book then the next (advanced) step could be anyone of the followings: (assumes a graduate level Linear System Theory background)
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What are some promising areas of research in digital signal processing?
Choosing a novel topic is a bold and wise move. Your question requires a bit of a bet, yet it is interesting to me, as I have not thought about this for a while. I will first drop two dual thoughts (...
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I cannot find reference (paper) of this relation $u(t)t^{α} ↔^{FT} f^{-(α+1)}$
You will find a "proof" of principle in math-stackexchange: Fourier transform of power function $t^\alpha$ (the title lacks the mention of the unit step function $u(t)$). At least formally, ...
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Synthesizing piano
Physical Audio Signal Processing by Julius Smith is probably something you'd be interested in! The full book is available online, and there's a whole chapter devoted to piano synthesis.
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Fields of math needed for digital filter design
@George Theodosiou:Instead of diving into all sorts of high-powered mathematical subjects (only a portion of which will be useful to you), I suggest you begin by reading a decent book for DSP ...
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DSP or signal/image/data processing jokes
I personally also consider this very early XKCD to be a signal processing joke:
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EDIT: While were doing early xkcd:
(both, of course, by Randall Munroe, CC-SA-Noncommercial)
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Practical book in C
If you want a single book on C programming with DSP, then I would refer to the classical one
C (Language) Algorithms for Real-Time DSP
from Paul M. Embree. And as far as I know, there is no modern ...
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Audio signal processing book suggestions
If you can get it:
Zölzer, Udo (1997). Digital Audio Signal Processing. John Wiley and Sons. ISBN 0-471-97226-6
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Orfanidis
might have to buy them used.
is your interest music processing and ...
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Resource recommendations to learn audio processing
Here are a few books that might be helpful:
The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to
Digital Signal Processing A good resource for you to get familiarized with DSP in general.
Understanding Digital ...
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Beginner's book in signal processing with practical examples on fault detection in electrical motors
When I had a look at rotating machinery, the best reference I could find is Bob Randall's Frequency Analysis. This was generated in conjunction with Brüel & Kjær as they sold lots of nice (and ...
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Recommendation for good ressources on digital processing and D-QPSK
Wow, I'm honored by Matt L. doing what I'm often doing: Referring people to GNU Radio.
The project actually has a list of recommended literature, but I don't know how well that'd fit you. It's ...
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Errata for Lyons's DSP book
This blog post by Richard Lyons contains the links to the Errata for all editions of Understanding DSP
International 3rd Edition Errata here.
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I cannot find reference (paper) of this relation $u(t)t^{α} ↔^{FT} f^{-(α+1)}$
I haven't found a reference but it appears to be related to the derivative/integral properties of the FT: $n^{th}$ derivative in frequency corresponds to multiplication with $t^n$ in the time domain (...
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Bibliographic References on Denoising Distributed Acoustic data with Deep Learning
I'll compare this to the problem of equalization in optical fibres.
Assume a single straight fibre for a start, and neglect noise.
There's some localized phenomenon that effects a pressure wave to ...
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What Resources Are Recommended for an Introduction to Signal Processing (DSP)?
The DSP neophyte who has some mathematical maturity may want to start with
Martin Vetterli, Jelena Kovačević, Vivek Goyal, Foundations of Signal Processing, 2014.
which is freely available online. ...
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When did signal processing become a field of its own?
There's a nice historical account given by the IEEE Signal Processing Society, that references 1948 as the year the field began. I'm not sure if that's necessarily accepted as "official" by other ...
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Ever wondered why there's "Live Aloha" bumper stickers?
Aloha is a remarkably unhealthy approach to vehicular traffic.
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I met up with RBJ at a bar this weekend and he immediately wanted to get into deeper details of the Fourier Transform. I refused--- it's just too dangerous to drink an derive.
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Computer exercises and solutions in signal processing
"Digital Signal Processing: A Computer-Based Approach" by Sanjit Mitra is what you need I guess, especially the exercises at the end of each chapter. There is a booklet on the Internet again by Mitra,...
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Newbie looking for an interesting introductory book to telecommunication and signals/data processing
"Telecommunications" is too broad a subject: you could spend your entire life learning about just a small part of the field. However, you mention data transmission specifically; I'll recommend these ...
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