Hilbert-Huang Transform and Its Applications (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789812563767)

The Hilbert-Huang Transform (HHT) represents a desperate attempt to break the suffocating hold on the field of data analysis by the twin assumptions of linearity and stationarity. Unlike spectrograms, wavelet analysis, or the Wigner-Ville Distribution, HHT is truly a time-frequency analysis, but it does not require an a priori functional basis and, therefore, the convolution computation of frequency. The method provides a magnifying glass to examine the data, and also offers a different view of data from nonlinear processes, with the results no longer shackled by spurious harmonics -- the artifacts of imposing a linearity property on a nonlinear system or of limiting by the uncertainty principle, and a consequence of Fourier transform pairs in data analysis. This is the first HHT book containing papers covering a wide variety of interests. The chapters are divided into mathematical aspects and applications, with the applications further grouped into geophysics, structural safety and visualization.

Author: Norden E. Huang
ISBN-10: 9812563768
ISBN-13: 9789812563767
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 09/21/2005
Pages: 324
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.57lbs
Size: 10.02h x 6.76w x 0.73d