Signal Processing

This was the fourth in a sequence of international conferences promoted and organized by the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP). This book (in three volumes) presents the proceedings of that conference. EUSIPCO '88 comprised 47 separate sessions organized in 7 parallel programs. Each of the 438 papers that were presented at the conference were reviewed by at least two referees from two independent institutions. In addition, 8 tutorials were contributed by experts in a large field of topics from ``Hidden Markov Fields'' to ``High Definition TV Systems''. The new technical potential of the DSP, opening new frontiers, was evidenced by the plenary session on ``Cheap and Powerful DSP Technologies: A Challenge?'' The contributions are grouped by topic in the contents in order to facilitate easy access. The diversity of the topics as well as the extraordinary tempo at which Signal Processing has progressed since the first conference in Lausanne (1980), attest to the permanent vitality of this field of research and development. Due to the extensive length of the contents, only the number of papers presented per session is listed below.