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Summary: Why reinvent the wheel...
Review: A well written book good for both introduction to DSP and for advanced users. The CD has lots of C++ code written for the Windows environment which I find easier and much quicker to prototype DSP apps than using simulation languages or mathematics packages. The CD is well worth the price of the book. The code can read and write .wav files and includes a plotting application which is ok.
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Summary: Why reinvent the wheel...
Review: I think every students who wants to know about data / images compression should read this book. I have read this book for my final project, ( I borrow it from the library) unfortunetely, the disk has missed. The problem is that I can't read and find some files in that book( like vector.h and soon) Can you help me?
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Summary: Quite good
Review: I think every students who wants to know about data / images compression should read this book. I have read this book for my final project, ( I borrow it from the library) unfortunetely, the disk has missed. The problem is that I can't read and find some files in that book( like vector.h and soon) Can you help me?
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Summary: A Must for your DSP library set.
Review: Lots of practical code examples. Practical filtering routines and example code.Includes a general introduction to C /C++ concepts frequently used in DSP algorithm development. A good introduction to image processing is included. The DSP function library and sample code is perhaps the best part of the book.
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Summary: You have to DOWNLOAD the CD-ROM (207 MB)
Review: The current edition of this book does NOT contain a physical CD-ROM. Instead, Prentice Hall has a link on their website that allows you to download the CD-ROM contents as a single ZIP file. That's a 207 MB ZIP file, folks. They've made no provisions for partial downloads...
This must be Prentice Hall's idea of a good way to increase the profit margin on their books. Recently, I've run across a couple other titles from PH-PTR where the CD-ROM mentioned in the preface is no longer included. In some cases, they haven't made the contents available on the web -- or even bothered to tell the book's author that they're dropping the media from the package.
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Summary: Don't buy this book
Review: The title promises a lot. But it doesn't deliver. This book is muddled and confused. It begins with a rather high browed treatment of the maths behind DSP then goes on to attempt to provide examples in C++. The examples are poor and unclear. The supplied code compiles under VC++ but not under any other platform without substantial reworking.
Over 100 pages of this 500 page book are devoted to a general discussion of the C++ language. Why? If I wanted this type of material I would consult my C++ manual. Here are C++ programmers who want to tell us the do's and don't's of the language, that feel the need to test newed pointers for NULL after allocating and before deleting!
As far as the rest of the book is concerned I found the examples and text unclear, pedantic and frankly quite useless. I will keep my copy only because I want to use the theoretical material. But this material was written for maths graduates - pages upon pages of proofs and derivations that provide little insight into the underlying principles and serve nothing. Hold off and buy something more usable.
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Summary: everything you need to do DSP
Review: This book comes with a Microsoft C++ compiler so the reader can try all the examples and change them easily.
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Summary: Puzzling Image Format
Review: This book is rather well written. I have read both the C++ and C versions. The contents of both books are more or less the same, just the difference in the C language used. Source Codes provided compiled neatly without and need for modification, which is really cool. However, the image files provided are really puzzling. The book says the images are in a DSP data format. So far I can only get the programs to work on the 2 images (.dat) provided. I tried using other .dat images from the net, and many other formats, including monochromatic raw images, but it wouldn't work. Another reason I only gave 3 stars is because the book doesn't provide any online help or an email of the authors. Personally I feel that this book is more for professionals who is already trained in DSP.
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Summary: Good book on practical DSP programming
Review: This book presents a lot of useful DSP algorithms. The programs I have tested so far seem to be doing the job. The mathematics discussed seems to be just right as well. (For in-depth discussion, Rick' "understanding digital signal processing" and Proakis' "digital signal processing, principles, algorithms and applications" are the best.)However the data used by this book is not standard wave PCM or other commonly used format. Therefore, it is difficult to directly use the programs. To make matters worse, the original data and processed data are not in the same format, which waste my whole afternoon just to figure this out. The book also spends one chapter (about 70 pages) discussing C++ concepts, which I believe should be completely removed. The algorithms written in C++ are less easy to use than its corresponding algorithms in C version. All in all, this book presents practical implementations for DSP algorithms. If this book had not stuffed its contents with C++ concepts, and used a common data format, I would have ranked this book five star.
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