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Signal & Image Processing with Neural Networks by Masters Recommended

ISBN: 0-471-04963-8       Publisher: Wiley       Pages: 416 pages+disk       Price: £36-95

Categories:   graphics     neural

Reviewed by Derek Jones in C Vu 7-6 (Sep 1995)

This book is not for the mathematically challenged. You will need some prior exposure to Fourier transforms. The source code bears all the hallmarks of a Fortran programmer (sophisticated writing of expressions involving floating point calculations and loop unrolling for efficiency, but poor code structuring and awful identifier names). The author is upfront in discussing the settings of various parameters and in the selection of algorithms. Often the simplest work and he recommends these.

The title of the book says it all. There is plenty of treatment on the signal processing side. At 400 pages I would have appreciated a little more balance with regard to the neural network material.

If you are seriously involved with signal processing this book is well worth a look. The included disc contains C++ source code for a number of signal and image processing algorithms as well as a neural network training and testing system.