Also of Interest -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Introduction -- Table of Contents -- 1 General properties of bispectrum-based digitalsignal processing -- 1.1 General properties of cumulant and moment functions -- 1.2 Triple correlation function and bispectrum -- 1.3 Bispectral density estimation techniques -- 1.4 Bispectrum-based algorithms in application for filtering and signal shape reconstruction -- 1.5 Reduction of waveform distortions in bispectrum-based signal reconstruction systems -- 1.6 Performance of the bispectral density estimator -- 1.7 Conclusions -- 2 Unknown noisy signal shape estimation by bispectrum-filtering techniques -- 2.1 Smoothing the noisy bimagnitude and biphase or the real and imaginary parts of bispectrum estimates by using nonadaptive 2-D linear and nonlinear filtering -- 2.2 Statistical properties of bispectrum estimate contaminated by noise -- 2.3 Novel techniques developed for improving noisy bispectrum estimates -- 2.4 Adaptive 1-D filtering applied for bispectrum-based signal reconstruction -- 2.5 Conclusions -- 3 Bispectrum-based digital image reconstruction using tapering pre-distortion -- 3.1 Additive predistortions in reconstruction of the images contaminated by noise and jitter -- 3.2 Bispectrum-based image reconstruction by using multiplicative predistortions -- 3.3 Search of the optimal parameters used for additive and multiplicative pre-distortion functions -- 3.4 Conclusions -- 4 Signal detection by using third-order test statistics in communications and radar applications -- 4.1 Detection of deterministic signals by using third-order test statistics and likelihood ratio criterion -- 4.2 Bispectrum-based encoding technique developed for noisy, multipath and fading radio links -- 4.3 Naval surface target detection and recognition by estimation of radar range profiles.

4.4 Using bicoherence-based features for aerial target classification -- 4.5 Time-frequency analysis of backscattering in ground surveillance Doppler radar -- 5 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Subject index.