**Meet the editor**

Dr Dumitru Baleanu holds his MSc in 1989 from the Faculty of Physics at University of Bucharest and PhD in 1996 from the Institute of Atomic Physics, Magurele-Bucharest, Romania. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher for two years in the Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, JINR, Dubna, Russia. He joined the Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences of

Faculty of Art and Sciences at Cankaya University on February 2000. In 2006 he became a Professor at the Institute of Space Sciences, Magurele-Bucharest, Romania. He has written more than 200 papers published in journals indexed in SCI. He is member of several editorial boards and his h-index is 16.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

**Part 1 Signal Processing 1** 

Chapter 2 **Wavelet Transform Based Motion** 

**License Plate Character Segmentation** 

Chapter 3 **Speech Scrambling Based on Wavelet Transform 41** 

**Measurement Using Wavelet Transform 81**  Begona García Zapirain, Ibon Ruiz and Amaia Mendez

**Surface Quality from Optical Profilometers 99** 

**Estimation of Active Power Unbalance in Power System 155** 

Samir Avdakovic, Amir Nuhanovic and Mirza Kusljugic

**to Extract Additional Information on** 

**of Mass Spectrometry Signals 125**  M'hamed Boulakroune and Djamel Benatia

Sattar Sadkhan and Nidaa Abbas

Guomin Luo and Daming Zhang

Chapter 5 **Oesophageal Speech's Formants** 

Chapter 6 **The Use of the Wavelet Transform** 

Richard L. Lemaster

Chapter 7 **Multi-Scale Deconvolution** 

**Part 2 Electrical Systems 153** 

Chapter 8 **Wavelet Theory and Applications for** 

**Algorithm Using 2D Haar Wavelet Transform 3**  Zoe Jeffrey, Soodamani Ramalingam and Nico Bekooy

**Estimation and Compensation for Video Coding 23**  Najib Ben Aoun, Maher El'arbi and Chokri Ben Amar

Chapter 1 **Real-Time DSP-Based** 

Chapter 4 **Wavelet Denoising 59** 
