Intelligent Methods in Signal Processing and Communications

Boundary Methods as Feature-Set Evaluation.- 8.4 Boundary Methods as a Sample-Pruning (SP) Mechanism.- 8.5 Boundary Methods as Fisher's Linear Discriminant (FLD)..- 8.6 Conclusions.- 8.7 Apendix: Proof of the Theorem Relating FLD and Boundary Methods.- 8.8 References.- 9 Constructive Function Approximation: Theory and Practice.- 9.1 Introduction.- 9.2 Overview of Constructive Approximation.- 9.3 Constructive Solutions.- 9.4 Limits and Bounds of the Approximation.- 9.5 The Sigmoidal Class of Approximators.- 9.6 Practical Considerations.- 9.7 Conclusions.- 9.8 Acknowledgments.- 9.9 References.- 10 Decision Trees Based on Neural Networks.- 10.1 Introduction.- 10.2 Adaptive modular classifiers.- 10.3 A survey on tree classification.- 10.4 Neural Decision Trees.- 10.5 Hierarchical mixtures of experts.- 10.6 Lighting the hidden variables.- 10.7 Conclusions.- 10.8 References.- 11 Applications of Chaos in Communications.- 11.1 Introduction.- 11.2 Deterministic dynamical systems and chaos.- 11.3 Chua's oscillator: a paradigm for chaos.- 11.4 Periodicity, quasiperiodicity, and chaos.- 11.5 Applications of chaos in communications.- 11.6 Digital communication.- 11.7 Spreading.- 11.8 Chaotic synchronization: state of the art.- 11.9 Chaotic modulation: state of the art.- 11.10Chaotic demodulation: state of the art.- 11.11Additional considerations.- 11.12Engineering challenges.- 11.13References.- 12 Design of Near PR Non-Uniform Filter Banks.- 12.1 Introduction.- 12.2 The MPEG audio coder.- 12.3 Non-uniform filter banks with rational sampling factors.- 12.4 Examples of non-uniform filterbanks design.- 12.5 Conclusions.- 12.6 References.- 13 Source Coding of Stereo Pairs.- 13.1 Introduction.- 13.2 Stereo Image Coding.- 13.3 The Subspace Projection Technique.- 13.4 Experimental Results.- 13.5 Conclusion.- 13.6 References.- 14 Design Methodology for VLSI Implementation of Image and Video Coding Algorithms - A Case Study.- 14.1 Introduction.- 14.2 JPEG Baseline Algorithm.- 14.3 High Level Modeling.- 14.4 VLSI Architectures.- 14.5 Bit-true Level Modeling.- 14.6 Layout Design.- 14.7 Results.- 14.8 Conclusions.- 14.9 Acknowledgements.- 14. l0 References.