Gérard Blanchet is Professor at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris, France. In addition to his research, teaching and consulting activities, he is the author of several books on automatic control systems, digital signal processing and computer architecture. He also develops tools and methodologies to improve knowledge acquisition in various fields.

Maurice Charbit, Professor at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris, France, teaches several courses in signal processing and digital communications. His research interests include statistics, speech and image processing.

Foreword 11

Notations and Abbreviations 15

Introduction to MATLAB 19

1 Variables and contstants 22

2 Operations and functions 29

3 Programming structures 37

4 Graphically displaying results 39

5 Converting numbers to character strings 47

6 Input/output 47

7 Program writing 48

Part I Deterministic Signals 53

Chapter 1 Signal Fundamentals 55

Chapter 2 Discrete Time signals and Sampling 65

Chapter 3 Spectral Observation 95

Chapter 4 Linear Filters 115

Chapter 5 An Introduction to Image Processing 175

Part II Random Signals 241

Chapter 6 Random Variables 243

Chapter 7 Random Processes 271

Chapter 8 Spectra Estimation 313

Chapter 9 The Least Squares Method 349

Part III Appendices 397

Chapter 10 Hints and Solutions 399

Chaprter 11 Appendix 479

Bibliography 485

Index 489

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