Trying to learn the basics

I'm struggling trying to get to grips with basic signal processing 
before I get back to my degree again, time/frequency domains, 
convolution, correlation, filtering, transforms. I am ok with using and 
manipulating equations for these, my maths is generally pretty good and 
I can solve standard problems with them, however I am having great 
difficulty conceptualising how it all glues together in the real world. 
I'm an engineer not a mathmatician and I need that understanding to be 
able to use it.

Can anyone point me in the direction of the answers to some of these 
questions?  I have tried to read a few books and use Matlab but it is 
all too abstract, I need something more real.

Cheers

Richard

"And Blah Blah Blah" <r.e.bowden@durham.ac.uk> wrote in message 
news:dhmutp$4vj$1@heffalump.dur.ac.uk...
> I'm struggling trying to get to grips with basic signal processing before 
> I get back to my degree again, time/frequency domains, convolution, 
> correlation, filtering, transforms. I am ok with using and manipulating 
> equations for these, my maths is generally pretty good and I can solve 
> standard problems with them, however I am having great difficulty 
> conceptualising how it all glues together in the real world. I'm an 
> engineer not a mathmatician and I need that understanding to be able to 
> use it.
>
> Can anyone point me in the direction of the answers to some of these 
> questions?  I have tried to read a few books and use Matlab but it is all 
> too abstract, I need something more real.
>
Hi Richard - what questions?

Best of Luck - Mike

And Blah Blah Blah wrote:
> I'm struggling trying to get to grips with basic signal processing 
> before I get back to my degree again, time/frequency domains, 
> convolution, correlation, filtering, transforms. I am ok with using and 
> manipulating equations for these, my maths is generally pretty good and 
> I can solve standard problems with them, however I am having great 
> difficulty conceptualising how it all glues together in the real world. 
> I'm an engineer not a mathmatician and I need that understanding to be 
> able to use it.
> 
> Can anyone point me in the direction of the answers to some of these 
> questions?  I have tried to read a few books and use Matlab but it is 
> all too abstract, I need something more real.

Short of getting a tutor, you'll have to read something, somewhere. You 
may find the on-line courses at http://www.bores.com/ useful. 
http://www.dspguru.com/ has some good stuff, including a list of books 
at varying levels. I especially like the one by Richard Lyons, a regular 
here. The book at http://www.dspguide.com/ is simple to understand, too.

Jerry
-- 
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On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 17:37:33 -0400, Jerry Avins <jya@ieee.org> wrote:


>Short of getting a tutor, you'll have to read something, somewhere. You 
>may find the on-line courses at http://www.bores.com/ useful. 
>http://www.dspguru.com/ has some good stuff, including a list of books 
>at varying levels. I especially like the one by Richard Lyons, a regular 
>here. The book at http://www.dspguide.com/ is simple to understand, too.
>
>Jerry

Hi Jer,

  Thanks for the "plug".  Richard might also want to 
take a peek at:

http://www.redcedar.com/learndsp.htm

See Ya',
[-Rick-]

Jerry Avins wrote:

> Short of getting a tutor, you'll have to read something, somewhere. You 
> may find the on-line courses at http://www.bores.com/ useful. 
> http://www.dspguru.com/ has some good stuff, including a list of books 
> at varying levels. I especially like the one by Richard Lyons, a regular 
> here. The book at http://www.dspguide.com/ is simple to understand, too.

I have one titled "Introductory Digital Signal Processing with Computer
Applications", by Lynn Fuerst.  Turns out the the computer applications
are wrriten in extremely low-quality C, but still, it might be
interesting for the OP, as it has a heavier emphasis on the practical
side and applications -- not sure if the book is still available (I
got it some 5 years ago or perhaps more).

Carlos
--

And Blah Blah Blah wrote:
> I'm struggling trying to get to grips with basic signal processing 
> before I get back to my degree again, time/frequency domains, 
> convolution, correlation, filtering, transforms. I am ok with using and 
> manipulating equations for these, my maths is generally pretty good and 
> I can solve standard problems with them, however I am having great 
> difficulty conceptualising how it all glues together in the real world. 
> I'm an engineer not a mathmatician and I need that understanding to be 
> able to use it.
> 
> Can anyone point me in the direction of the answers to some of these 
> questions?  I have tried to read a few books and use Matlab but it is 
> all too abstract, I need something more real.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Richard


Perhaps you might get a bit of what your looking for by looking at books 
that use DSP in applications.  Whalen's book on detection theory, or 
Nielson's book on sonar signal processing. This is a very short list.