Sometimes it is easier to say what a book is not than what it exactly represents. It
may be also better to resume the authors’ motivations than to explain the book
content itself.
From this point of view, our book is certainly not a traditional course, although it
recalls many theoretical signal processing concepts. Indeed, we emphasize a limited
number of important ideas instead of making a detailed description of the involved
concepts. Intuitive manners have been used to link these concepts to physical
aspects. Hence, we hope that reading this book will be much more exciting than
studying a traditional signal processing course.
This book is also not a physics course, although a major purpose of most
proposed exercises is to link abstract signal processing concepts to real-life
problems. These connections are illustrated in a simple and comprehensive manner
through MATLAB�� simulations.
The main topics of this book cover the usual program of an undergraduate signal
processing course. It is especially written for language and computer science
students, but also for a much larger scientific community who may wish to have a
comprehensive signal processing overview. Students will certainly find here what
they are looking for, while others will probably find new and interesting knowledge.