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Channel coding lies at the heart of digital communication and data storage. Fully updated, including a new chapter on polar codes, this detailed introduction describes the core theory of channel coding, decoding algorithms, implementation details, and performance analyses. This new edition includes over 50 new end-of-chapter problems and new figures and worked examples throughout. The authors emphasize the practical approach and present clear information on modern channel codes, including turbo and low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes, detailed coverage of BCH codes, Reed-Solomon codes, convolutional codes, finite geometry codes, product codes as well as polar codes for error correction and detection, providing a one-stop resource for classical and modern coding techniques. Assuming no prior knowledge in the field of channel coding, the opening chapters begin with basic theory to introduce newcomers to the subject. Later chapters then extend to advanced topics such as code ensemble performance analyses and algebraic code design.

A fully up-to-date guide to transformative consumer technologies

Digital video, whether in the form of broadcast, home entertainment, or consumer electronics, has become one of the most important parts of the marketplace. Video compression, or video coding, has been at the center of that marketplace revolution, and standards like high efficiency video coding (HEVC) have delivered increasingly rapid and high-quality video to homes and workplaces around the globe. Coding Video: A Practical Guide to HEVC and Beyond has served for over a decade as a practical guide to the landscape of video coding, its technical fundamentals, and its commercial aspects. Now fully updated to reflect a transformed digital video market, it promises to continue as the gold-standard introduction to the subject.

Coding Video readers will also find:

• A companion website with extensive links to public domain software and analysis tools, updates, and more
• Detailed coverage of all major video formats and their coding parameters
• In-depth analysis of patents, licensing, and other commercial and legal issues

Coding Video is ideal for engineers, application developers, product designers, and other digital video professionals, as well as advanced undergraduate and graduate students in Engineering, Computer Science, and related subjects.

Machine Learning: From the Classics to Deep Networks, Transformers and Diffusion Models, Third Edition starts with the basics, including least squares regression and maximum likelihood methods, Bayesian decision theory, logistic regression, and decision trees. It then progresses to more recent techniques, covering sparse modelling methods, learning in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces and support vector machines. Bayesian learning is treated in detail with emphasis on the EM algorithm and its approximate variational versions with a focus on mixture modelling, regression and classification. Nonparametric Bayesian learning, including Gaussian, Chinese restaurant, and Indian buffet processes are also presented. Monte Carlo methods, particle filtering, probabilistic graphical models with emphasis on Bayesian networks and hidden Markov models are treated in detail. Dimensionality reduction and latent variables modelling are considered in depth. Neural networks and deep learning are thoroughly presented, starting from the perceptron rule and multilayer perceptrons and moving on to convolutional and recurrent neural networks, adversarial learning, capsule networks, deep belief networks, GANs, and VAEs. The book also covers the fundamentals on statistical parameter estimation and optimization algorithms.

Focusing on the physical reasoning behind the mathematics, without sacrificing rigor, all methods and techniques are explained in depth, supported by examples and problems, providing an invaluable resource to the student and researcher for understanding and applying machine learning concepts.

Introduces fundamental concepts with a robust bottom-up approach, equipping senior undergraduate and graduate students in electrical engineering with the skills they need to assess, compare, and design state-of-the-art digital communication systems. Accompanied by interactive visualizations, downloadable Matlab code, and solutions for instructors.

Matrix theory is the lingua franca of everyone who deals with dynamically evolving systems, and familiarity with efficient matrix computations is an essential part of the modern curriculum in dynamical systems and associated computation. This is a master's-level textbook on dynamical systems and computational matrix algebra. It is based on the remarkable identity of these two disciplines in the context of linear, time-variant, discrete-time systems and their algebraic equivalent, quasi-separable systems. The authors' approach provides a single, transparent framework that yields simple derivations of basic notions, as well as new and fundamental results such as constrained model reduction, matrix interpolation theory and scattering theory. This book outlines all the fundamental concepts that allow readers to develop the resulting recursive computational schemes needed to solve practical problems. An ideal treatment for graduate students and academics in electrical and computer engineering, computer science and applied mathematics.

Causality has the potential to truly transform the way we solve a large number of real-world problems. Yet, so far, its potential largely remains to be unlocked as causality often requires crucial assumptions which cannot be tested in practice. This monograph, entitled Causal Deep Learning (CDL), presents a new way of looking at causality. The causal deep learning framework in this monograph spans three dimensions: (1) a structural dimension, which incorporates partial yet testable causal knowledge rather than assuming either complete or no causal knowledge among the variables of interest; (2) a parametric dimension, which encompasses parametric forms that capture the type of relationships among the variables of interest; and (3) a temporal dimension, which captures exposure times or how the variables of interest interact (possibly causally) over time. The CDL framework used enables precise categorisation and comparison of causal statistical learning methods. This categorisation is used to provide a comprehensive review of the CDL field. More importantly, CDL enables progress on a variety of real-world problems by aiding partial causal knowledge (including independencies among variables) and quantitatively characterising causal relationships among variables of interest (possibly over time). The framework used clearly identifies which assumptions are testable and which are not, so the resulting solutions can be judiciously adopted in practice. This formulation helps to combine or chain causal representations to solve specific problems without losing track of which assumptions are required to build these solutions, pushing real-world impact in healthcare, economics and business, environmental sciences and education, through causal deep learning.

If you understand basic mathematics and know how to program with Python, youâ re ready to dive into signal processing. While most resources start with theory to teach this complex subject, this practical book introduces techniques by showing you how theyâ re applied in the real world. In the first chapter alone, youâ ll be able to decompose a sound into its harmonics, modify the harmonics, and generate new sounds.

Author Allen Downey explains techniques such as spectral decomposition, filtering, convolution, and the Fast Fourier Transform. This book also provides exercises and code examples to help you understand the material.

Youâ ll explore:

• Periodic signals and their spectrums
• Harmonic structure of simple waveforms
• Chirps and other sounds whose spectrum changes over time
• Noise signals and natural sources of noise
• The autocorrelation function for estimating pitch
• The discrete cosine transform (DCT) for compression
• The Fast Fourier Transform for spectral analysis
• Relating operations in time to filters in the frequency domain
• Linear time-invariant (LTI) system theory
• Amplitude modulation (AM) used in radio

Other books in this series include Think Stats and Think Bayes, also by Allen Downey.

Combining clear explanations of elementary principles, advanced topics and applications with step-by-step mathematical derivations, this textbook provides a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to digital signal processing. All the key topics are covered, including discrete-time Fourier transform, z-transform, discrete Fourier transform and FFT, A/D conversion, and FIR and IIR filtering algorithms, as well as more advanced topics such as multirate systems, the discrete cosine transform and spectral signal processing. Over 600 full-color illustrations, 200 fully worked examples, hundreds of end-of-chapter homework problems and detailed computational examples of DSP algorithms implemented in MATLAB(R) and C aid understanding, and help put knowledge into practice. A wealth of supplementary material accompanies the book online, including interactive programs for instructors, a full set of solutions and MATLAB(R) laboratory exercises, making this the ideal text for senior undergraduate and graduate courses on digital signal processing.

Biosignals can encode information about human health and physiology. They can be used to diagnose diseases, screen for disorders, and monitor vital signs. This text introduces the essential principles you need to understand biosignal processing. With explanations, derivations, illustrations, and worked examples, it provides the foundation required to design engineering solutions to biosignal processing applications. Topics include sampling, aliasing, continuous and discrete Fourier transforms, digital filtering, and analog filtering.

This book deals with low-frequency diffraction characteristics of small aperture structures such as a narrow slit and a small hole and their periodic structures, with emphasis on the transmission maximum phenomena through those structures. A narrow slit structure in a conducting plane has been used as a simple model for a narrow slot planar antenna, for example, whereas a small hole structure has been widely used as an aperture-coupling element in a transmission cavity filter or a directional coupler in the microwave regime.

In writing this book, the author has aimed to provide a guide that will be useful in understanding a wide variety of resonance-related device technologies in the microwave and optics areas. The structure of the book is loosely divided into three parts: (1) transmission resonance (Chapters 3, 4, and 5), (2) absorption resonance (Chapter 6), and (3) scattering resonance (Chapter 7).

It is hoped that this book will help students and researchers in applied electromagnetics to understand the underlying physics of the various resonance phenomena in microwaves and optics. The readers are assumed to be equipped with basic knowledge of electromagnetism, microwave circuit theory, antenna theory, and numerical methods such as method of moments (MoM).

Discover this multi-disciplinary and insightful work, which integrates machine learning, edge computing, and big data. Presents the basics of training machine learning models, key challenges and issues, as well as comprehensive techniques including edge learning algorithms, and system design issues. Describes architectures, frameworks, and key technologies for learning performance, security, and privacy, as well as incentive issues in training/inference at the network edge. Intended to stimulate fruitful discussions, inspire further research ideas, and inform readers from both academia and industry backgrounds. Essential reading for experienced researchers and developers, or for those who are just entering the field.

This monograph is motivated by a number of recent developments that appear to define a possible new role for researchers with an engineering profile. First, there are now several software libraries - such as IBM's Qiskit, Google's Cirq, and Xanadu's PennyLane - that make programming quantum algorithms more accessible, while also providing cloud-based access to actual quantum computers. Second, a new framework is emerging for programming quantum algorithms to be run on current quantum hardware: quantum machine learning.

In the current noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era, quantum machine learning is emerging as a dominant paradigm to program gate-based quantum computers. In quantum machine learning, the gates of a quantum circuit are parametrized, and the parameters are tuned via classical optimization based on data and on measurements of the outputs of the circuit. Parametrized quantum circuits (PQCs) can efficiently address combinatorial optimization problems, implement probabilistic generative models, and carry out inference (classification and regression).

This monograph provides a self-contained introduction to quantum machine learning for an audience of engineers with a background in probability and linear algebra. It first describes the background, concepts, and tools necessary to describe quantum operations and measurements. Then, it covers parametrized quantum circuits, the variational quantum eigensolver, as well as unsupervised and supervised quantum machine learning formulations.

The book systematically introduces theories of frequently-used modern signal processing methods and technologies, and focuses discussions on stochastic signal, parameter estimation, modern spectral estimation, adaptive filter, high-order signal analysis and non-linear transformation in time-domain signal analysis. With abundant exercises, the book is an essential reference for graduate students in electrical engineering and information science.

This monograph presents a theoretical background and a broad introduction to the Min-Max Framework for Majorization-Minimization (MM4MM), an algorithmic methodology for solving minimization problems by formulating them as min-max problems and then employing majorization-minimization. The monograph lays out the mathematical basis of the approach used to reformulate a minimization problem as a min-max problem. With the prerequisites covered, including multiple illustrations of the formulations for convex and non-convex functions, this work serves as a guide for developing MM4MM-based algorithms for solving non-convex optimization problems in various areas of signal processing.

As special cases, the majorization-minimization technique is discussed to solve min-max problems encountered in signal processing applications and min-max problems formulated using the Lagrangian. Detailed examples of using MM4MM in ten signal processing applications such as phase retrieval, source localization, independent vector analysis, beamforming, and optimal sensor placement in wireless sensor networks are presented. The devised MM4MM algorithms are free of hyper-parameters and enjoy the advantages inherited from the use of the majorization-minimization technique such as monotonicity.