Name: Practical Signal Processing
ISBN: 9781107411821

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sillysaurusxMay 2021

I've been thinking a lot about how to apply FFTs to neural networks, so this is timely; thank you.

If you're looking for deeper explanations, I recommend "Practical Signal Processing": https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Signal-Processing-Mark-Owen...

Many of the chapters are here: https://battle.shawwn.com/sdb/books/PSP/ but buy the book if you can afford to.

In particular, Chapter 4's "untwisting" intuition is the best I've found: https://imgur.com/a/r7KvO60

Another way of phrasing it: You know that effect when a wheel is spinning so fast, it looks like it's going backwards? If it looks like it's standing still, there's a Fourier coefficient at that rotational frequency.

... Or at least, I think there is. It's hard to be precise with analogies.

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boneitisSep 2019

Practical Signal Processing by Owen might be a lead worth looking into. It was recommended by Ossmann in his HackRF tutorial videos (he created the HackRF).

It's gonna fall near the extreme end of succinctness.

I had since purchased the book but haven't gone more than a couple chapters deep. It definitely looks like it allows you to dive into the meat of DSP. Don't know if it will fit the bill for rigorous.

I also didn't pay anything near what it's currently listing for on Amazon.

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lb1lfJul 2018

I've just spent a while looking for my old signal processing textbooks, but there was too much piled on top of them (I've moved house three times since I last worked with signal processing... :)

I remember two introductory books which were quite good - Kamen/Heck's 'Signals and Systems' - tells you a bit about the tools of the trade, laplace and fourier transforms, transfer functions, filter design &c - the book was accompanied by a number of MatLab scripts which let you visualise how manipulating properties of a filter affected the output; most useful.

Proakis & Manolakis' Digital Signal Processing was also quite good; both books assume you know your way around engineering mathematics - series, integrals mostly - but in particular Kamen/Heck I remember provoking quite a number of insights from the text alone.

Again, the ARRL may be of some assistance - the radio amateur's handbook has a couple of chapters on the basics of filters, leaning very much against the applied end of things.

I hear good things about Owen's Practical Signal Processing, too, but haven't studied it myself yet; as you say, there's only so much time in a day...

Oh, and steer clear of anything with the phrase 'non-linear' anywhere in the title or blurb. Just don't go there.

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ChuckMcMDec 2016

I would be interested in knowing how it compares to Practical Signal Processing (https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Signal-Processing-Mark-Owen...)

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