Signal Processing
Signal Processing
Contents
1 History
2 Application fields
3 Typical devices
4
Mathematical methods applied The signal on the left looks like noise, but the signal processing
technique known as the Fourier transform (right) shows that it
5 Categories
5.1 contains five well defined frequency components.
Analog signal processing
5.2
Continuous-time signal processing
5.3
Discrete-time signal processing
5.4
Digital signal processing
5.5
Nonlinear signal processing
6 See also
7 Notes and references
8 External links
History
According to Alan V. Oppenheim and Ronald W. Schafer, the principles of signal processing can be found in the
classical numerical analysis techniques of the 17th century. Oppenheim and Schafer further state that the digital
refinement of these techniques can be found in the digital control systems of the 1940s and 1950s.[4]
Application fields
Audio signal processing for electrical signals representing sound, such as speech or music
Digital signal processing
Speech signal processing for processing and interpreting spoken
words
Image processing in digital cameras, computers and various imaging
systems
Video processing for interpreting moving pictures
Wireless communication waveform generations, demodulation,
filtering, equalization
Control systems
Array processing for processing signals from arrays of sensors Seismic signal processing
Process control a variety of signals are used, including the industry
standard 4-20 mA current loop
Seismology
Financial signal processing analyzing financial data using signal processing techniques, especially for prediction
purposes.
Feature extraction, such as image understanding and speech recognition.
Quality improvement, such as noise reduction, image enhancement, and echo cancellation.
(Source coding), including audio compression, image compression, and video compression.
Genomics, Genomic signal processing [5]
In communication systems, signal processing may occur at:
OSI layer 1 in the seven layer OSI model, the Physical Layer (modulation, equalization, multiplexing, etc.);
OSI layer 2, the Data Link Layer (Forward Error Correction);
OSI layer 6, the Presentation Layer (source coding, including analog-to-digital conversion and signal
compression).
Typical devices
Filters for example analog (passive or active) or digital (FIR, IIR, frequency domain or stochastic filters, etc.)
Samplers and analog-to-digital converters for signal acquisition and reconstruction, which involves measuring a
physical signal, storing or transferring it as digital signal, and possibly later rebuilding the original signal or an
approximation thereof.
Signal compressors
Digital signal processors (DSPs)
Categories
The methods of signal processing include time domain, frequency domain, and complex frequency domain. This
technology mainly discusses the modeling of linear time-invariant continuous system, integral of the system's zero-
state response, setting up system function and the continuous time filtering of deterministic signals
Analog discrete-time signal processing is a technology based on electronic devices such as sample and hold circuits,
analog time-division multiplexers, analog delay lines and analog feedback shift registers. This technology was a
predecessor of digital signal processing (see below), and is still used in advanced processing of gigahertz signals.
The concept of discrete-time signal processing also refers to a theoretical discipline that establishes a mathematical
basis for digital signal processing, without taking quantization error into consideration.
External links
Signal Processing for Communications (http://www.sp4comm.org/) free online textbook by Paolo Prandoni and
Martin Vetterli (2008)
Scientists and Engineers Guide to Digital Signal Processing (http://www.dspguide.com) free online textbook by
Stephen Smith
Signal Processing Techniques for Determining Powerplant Characteristics (http://www.usbr.gov/research/projects/
detail.cfm?id=9962)
The IEEE Signal Processing Society (http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/)
Bio-Medical Signal processing at a Glance (http://siliconmentor.blogspot.in/2015/03/bio-medical-signal-processing
-at-glance.html)
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