Time-Frequency/Time-scale Analysis

Rating:
Summary: A great reference book.
Review: I do research in time-frequency analysis and have been amazed at the wealth of information in this book. This book covers many of the topics of recent and current research in the field of time-frequency analysis.

Although this is volume 10 in the "Wavelet Analysis and its Applications" series by Academic Press, don't be misled into thinking that this a book on wavelets alone. If you want a wavelet book I recommend the "Wavelets and Subband Coding" by Martin Vetterli and Jelena Kovacevic.

(From the cover) "This book offers a discussion of problems that emerge from a mixed description in time and frequency, and it comprises a detailed construction of the principle classes of admissible solutions (short-time Fourier, wavelets, Wigner-Ville, Cohen's class, affine distributions, etc.) It also addresses numerous issues of interpretation related to such representations and shows how to reformulate several important problems in signal theory by utilizing time-frequency distributions."

A bonus for researchers is that although it not mentioned in the book, Flandrin has a public domain set of Matlab routines to compute many of the techniques described in the book.

Finally, an indication of the scope and thoroughness of the book is that it concludes with a 20 page bibliography.

This book makes a nice companion to the book "Time-Frequency Analysis" by Leon Cohen. Although there is a good deal of overlap in the material they are different enough to warrant owning both.

Highly recommended.

Rating:
Summary: A great reference book.
Review: I do research in time-frequency analysis and have been amazed at the wealth of information in this book. This book covers many of the topics of recent and current research in the field of time-frequency analysis.

Although this is volume 10 in the "Wavelet Analysis and its Applications" series by Academic Press, don't be misled into thinking that this a book on wavelets alone. If you want a wavelet book I recommend the "Wavelets and Subband Coding" by Martin Vetterli and Jelena Kovacevic.

(From the cover) "This book offers a discussion of problems that emerge from a mixed description in time and frequency, and it comprises a detailed construction of the principle classes of admissible solutions (short-time Fourier, wavelets, Wigner-Ville, Cohen's class, affine distributions, etc.) It also addresses numerous issues of interpretation related to such representations and shows how to reformulate several important problems in signal theory by utilizing time-frequency distributions."

A bonus for researchers is that although it not mentioned in the book, Flandrin has a public domain set of Matlab routines to compute many of the techniques described in the book.

Finally, an indication of the scope and thoroughness of the book is that it concludes with a 20 page bibliography.

This book makes a nice companion to the book "Time-Frequency Analysis" by Leon Cohen. Although there is a good deal of overlap in the material they are different enough to warrant owning both.

Highly recommended.