Gabor analysis in signal and image processing


                            Peter Gibson         

                            York University


Abstract: Time-frequency analysis, rooted in the short-time Fourier transform, has been applied in recent years to myriad technologies, including geophysical imaging and medical signal processing. The short-time Fourier transform and its various discretizations are also known as Gabor transforms. In this talk we discuss a number of mathematical issues relating to the analysis and computation of linear operators by means of Gabor transforms. The main focus will be the problem of diagonalizing a general linear operator via the short-time Fourier transform, and relating the analysis to the standard Kohn-Nirenberg representation.