2-Day Professional Development Course on

TIME FREQUENCY SIGNAL ANALYSIS

AND PROCESSING
With Practical Sessions using MATLAB-based Software
developed by the Course Leader
By

PROFESSOR BOUALEM BOASHASH, Fellow IEEE

Professor of Electrical Engineering, Qatar University
Adjunct Professor, School of Medicine, Queensland University

Kuala Lumpur: Singapore:

4 & 5 April 2011 7 & 8 April 2011
The Melia Hotel KL Holiday Inn Singapore Orchard

MAIN FEATURES OF THIS COURSE

• This course focuses on the theoretical as well as the practical aspects of time
frequency signal analysis and processing (TFSAP).

• It focuses on the fundamental concepts and principles used in the analysis and
processing of non-stationary signals, as found in a wide and ever-increasing range of
applications including telecommunications, radar and sonar, and biomedical
engineering.

• The course includes a step by step tutorial approach to the use of some TFSAP-based
techniques in the solution of typical practical engineering problems. The tutorial is
based on the MATLAB*-based software package “TFSA”, written by the course leader
and his co-authors. This software efficiently implements a large number of widely
used algorithms and helps to practically grasp the power of TFSAP. Participants
will receive a complimentary copy of the TFSA toolbox for MATLAB.
*MATLAB is a registered trademark of The MathWorks, Inc.

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Introduction/Objectives Course Outline
This course is a theoretical and practical
introduction to the area of time-frequency Day 1
signal analysis and processing (TFSAP). It
focuses on the fundamental concepts and Topic 1 (Morning): Overview of Time-
principles used in the analysis and Frequency Methods
processing of non-stationary signals, as Content:
found in a wide and ever-increasing range • Signal representations and the need for
of applications including Time-Frequency Methods
telecommunications, radar and sonar, and • Concept of joint time-frequency signal
biomedical engineering. representations
• Heuristic formulation of time-frequency
The course includes a step by step tutorial distributions
approach to the use of some TFSAP-based • Analytic Signal, Instantaneous Frequency
techniques in the solution of typical practical and Time-Frequency Distributions
engineering problems. A tutorial of the
MATLAB-based software package “TFSA”, Topic 2 (Afternoon)
written by the course leader and his co- Introduction to MATLAB-based TFSA
authors efficiently implements a large Package
number of widely used algorithms and helps Content:
to practically grasp the power of TFSAP. • Tutorials on non-stationary signals and
time-frequency representations
Participants will be exposed to an advanced • Tutorials on notions of instantaneous
signal processing approach of posing and frequency and analytic signals
solving engineering problems involving non- • Application of basic TFSAP algorithms
stationary signals using a time-frequency
methodology. They will also learn how this Day 2
approach can be implemented using an easy
to use MATLAB-based software. Topic 3 (Morning): Typical Applications
of TFSAP
Content:
The Time Frequency Signal Analysis • TFSAP applications in Biomedical
(TFSA) package is a general-purpose Engineering
tool for scientific and signal processing • TFSAP applications in Radar, Sonar and
applications. TFSA enables the user to Mobile Communication
quickly and easily apply time-frequency • Conclusions and further reading
and time-scale representations,
instantaneous frequency estimators and
other tools. Topic 4 (Afternoon)
TFSA Tutorial
Content:
The TFSA package is now distributed as • Advanced use of TFSAP techniques to
a MATLAB toolbox. In addition to the analyse non-stationary signals
plotting facilities of MATLAB, a graphic • Time-Frequency analysis of multi-
user interface has been added to make component signals and noise
the package more accessible to new • Instantaneous Frequency Estimation of
users. multi-component signals.
Who Will Benefit From This Course
This course is aimed at students, engineers, scientists, researchers and practitioners in
signal and image processing, communication, biomedical engineering or anyone who is
faced with the challenging problem of analysing, processing, and interpreting man-
made and real-life signals that exhibit a non-stationary behaviour.

This course will help develop a practical understanding of the potentials and methods of
the increasingly useful area of TFSA.

Course Leader
Professor Boualem Boashash

Boualem Boashash (aka Bouachache) was a Professor in Electrical Engineering at

Queensland University of Technology and at the University of Queensland, Brisbane,
Australia for 21 years. He is now an Adjunct Professor in the School of Medicine of the
University of Queensland and also a Professor in Electrical Engineering at Qatar
University.

He obtained a Diplome d'ingenieur-Physique-Electronique from ICPI, University de

Lyon, France, in 1978, the M.S. and Doctorate (Docteur-Ingenieur) degrees from the
Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France in 1979 and 1982 respectively. In
1979, he joined Elf-Aquitaine Geophysical Research Centre, Pau, France.

In May 1982, he joined the Institut National des Sciences Applique'es de Lyon, France.
In 1984, he joined the Electrical Engineering department of the University of
Queensland, Australia, as lecturer. In 1990, he joined Bond University, Graduate
School of Science and Technology, as Professor of Electronics. In 1991, he joined Bond
University Queensland University of Technology as the foundation Professor of Signal
Processing and director of the Signal Processing Research Centre.

B. Boashash is the editor of three books and has written over 400 hundred technical
publications in the area of time-frequency signal analysis and processing. His work has
been cited more than 5500 times. Prof. Boashash is a fellow of IE Aust., fellow of IREE,
and fellow of IEEE.

Basic References:

a. Boualem Boashash, “Time-Frequency Signal Analysis and Processing: A Comprehensive

Reference”, Elsevier Science, Oxford, 2003. ISBN 0080443354.

b. B. Boashash, "Estimating and Interpreting the Instantaneous Frequency of a Signal-Part I:

Fundamentals", Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 80, No. 4, pp. 519-538, April 1992,
doi:10.1109/5.135376.
 COURSE ON TIME FREQUENCY SIGNAL ANALYSIS . AND PROCESSING – APR 2011
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