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Most certainly not. While there has been some claims to break Shannon here and there, it usually turned out that the Shannon theorem was just applied in the wrong way. I've yet to see any such claim to actually prove true. There are some methods known that allow for transmission of multiple data streams at the same time on the same frequency. The MIMO ...

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There are a lot of books out there, but if you are interested in Control and Signal Processing, I strongly suggest you take a look a Stephen Boyd Lectures from standford: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf1264iFr-w There's the first one, the entire course is really valuable and he is a great Teacher. Appart from That here's a good list of my preferred ...

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The capacity of a channel should be viewed as analogous to the speed limit on a highway. It is possible to travel at a speed greater than the posted limit on a highway but it is not possible to achieve good gas mileage while doing so. Similarly, it is possible to transmit data at rates higher than the capacity of the channel (in fact, unlike highways, ...

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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. But one DSP student suddenly stands up and asks some passengers on the right aisle to move across the plane. Passengers are reluctant but the student insists. “...

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I personally believe that the approach of studying something just in order to "feel ready" to study something else later on is not efficient and tends to overwhelm the student. (This of course only applies because I assume that you know what a computer scientist should know anyway: basic math, and - most importantly - how to think clearly and logically.) I ...

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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 covers pretty much all 4 topics that you described. The other one I recommend is: Malepati H. - Digital Media Processing: DSP Algorithms Using C It covers ...

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the general polynomial form is: \begin{align} f(u) &= \sum\limits_{n=0}^{N} \ a_n \ u^n \\ \\ &= a_{\small{0}} + \Bigg(a_{\small{1}} + \bigg(a_{\small{2}} + \Big(a_{\small{3}} + \,... \big(a_{\small{N-2}} + (a_{\small{N-1}} + a_{\small{N}} \,u \,)u \, \big)u \ ...\Big)u \, \bigg)u \, \Bigg)u\\ \end{align} the latter form is using Horner's ...

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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 be able to understand poles and zeros, which can be complex. Complex numbers enable you to have negative frequencies, which will make math simpler. ...

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If you're familiar with Fourier transforms, I think the bridge between the Fourier worlds and the wavelet worlds is the Gabor transform (a Gaussian-windowed STFT) and the complex Morlet wavelet transform. This is historically how they developed, too. They are basically the same thing, breaking down a signal into "blips" of complex sinusoids: But the time-...

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You can visit the MIT OpenCourseWare. A set of 20 video lectures by professor Alan V. Oppenheim.

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Why is the fourier transform a special case of the laplace transform? The Laplace transform produces a 2D surface of complex values, while the Fourier transform produces a 1D line of complex values. The Fourier transform is what you get when you slice the Laplace transform along the jω axis. For instance, a simple lowpass filter $H(s)=\frac{1}{s+1}$ has a ...

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I will try to tackle questions 1 and 4. 1) Entropy- It is desired that the entropy of the system be maximized. Maximizing entropy means no symbol is better than the others or we do not know what the next symbol / outcome would be. However, the formula states a negative sign before the summation of the probability logarithms. Thus, it means we are ...

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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 it you'll know enough to carry on by yourself.

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I think "Introduction to Wavelets and Wavelet Transforms: A Primer" by Sidney Burrus (et al.) is a very good and practical book. It is very clear, has exercises, and contains some Matlab programs. EDIT: I forgot to mention that this paper is also a very nice introduction to wavelets.

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There's a whole area of signal processing dedicated to optimal filtering. In pretty much every case I've seen the filtering problem is formulated with a convex cost function. Here's a freely available book on the subject - Sophocles J. Orfanidis - Optimum Signal Processing.

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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 every filter design is the result of an optimization problem, like: Find these set of $N$ numbers such that the absolute value of the fourier transform in these ...

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More of a terrible visual pun: The FFTiramisu.

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I personally also consider this very early XKCD to be a signal processing joke: [ EDIT: While were doing early xkcd: (both, of course, by Randall Munroe, CC-SA-Noncommercial)

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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 version to beat it's simplicity, clarity and usefulness...

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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) Statistical Digital Signal Processing, Monson Hayes Multiresolution Signal Decomposition: Transforms, Subbands,Wavelets, A.Akansu Adaptive Filter Theory, ...

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I have found some "proverbs" like: Never use software to compensate for a poor lighting system. It is not cost effective and will result in a poor system design. It is cheaper to add a light-proof shroud to keep sun-light away from the object under inspection than to modify the software. Another universal truth which is often forgotten. ...

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I think you are mixing two things that are actually not related. "Beating" happens if you add two sine waves that are close in frequency. What you describe is sampling sine wave close to the Nyquist Frequeny. If you plot the samples, it looks like there is beating going on, but that's not actually the case. All information is properly preserved and if you ...

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If you have an understanding of Fourier transforms then you probably already have a conceptual model of transforming signals into the frequency domain. The Laplace transform provides an alternative frequency domain representation of the signal - usually referred to as the "S domain" to differentiate it from other frequency domain transforms (such as the Z ...

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The Proakis and Manolakis book is good if you're looking for one book. If you're looking for depth about statistical signal processing, I recommend the series of three by Steven M. Kay: Fundamentals of Statistical Signal Processing Volume I: Estimation Theory Fundamentals of Statistical Signal Processing Volume II: Detection Theory Fundamentals of ...

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The documentation clearly describes its function: "For each sample of x, the function computes the median of a window composed of the sample and its six surrounding samples, three per side. It also estimates the standard deviation of each sample about its window median using the median absolute deviation. If a sample differs from the median by more than ...

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@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 beginners. Such as the popular books "Understanding Digital Signal Processing" or "The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing." Those books spoon ...

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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 expensive) vibration measuring / monitoring equipment. A short Google search shows that B&K have made the PDF of this book available for free download from ...

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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 probably still worth looking into. Then, regarding QPSK: Well, it's one of the basic constellations, and you'd probably be best off reading a textbook intro to ...

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Crazy Audio Fx ilustration lol more:

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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 down horizontally from side to side. I asked her "What's that mean?", and she said "It's the Fourier Transform of this!" as she raised up her middle finger to me. ...

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