Description

In this book/ you will learn how digital signals are captured/ represented/ processed/ communicated/ and stored in computers. The specific topics we will cover include: physical properties of the source information (such as sound or images)/ devices for information cap- ture (microphones/ cameras)/ digitization/ compression/ digital signal representation (JPEG/ MPEG)/ digital signal processing (DSP)/ and network communication. By the end of this book/ you should understand the problems and solutions facing signal computing systems development in the areas of user interfaces/ information retrieval/ data structures and algo- rithms/ and communications.