Chapter 2    Signal Processing Transforms

Serhan Yarkan and Khalid A. Qaraqe

Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

Texas A&M University at Qatar

2.1      Introduction

In a broader scope, a transformation in mathematics can broadly be defined as the operation which takes its input and “represents” it in a different form. Such a definition immediately implies preserving the essential characteristics of the input through several conservation rules or laws. In order to outline the complete input–output relationship in an abstract transformation, the input and output of the transformation should be characterized as well. Therefore, mathematically speaking, a transformation can be viewed as a special function (or a correspondence) whose input ...

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