Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Preface -- Editor -- Contributors -- Dedication -- Contents -- 1 Signal Processing Concept Similarities among Sonar, Radar, and Medical Imaging Systems Stergios Stergiopoulos -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Overview o f a Real-Time System -- 1.3 Signal Processor -- 1.4 Data Manager and Display Sub-System -- SECTION I General Topics on Signal Processing -- 2 Adaptive Systems for Signal Process Simon Haykin -- 2.1 The Filtering Problem -- 2.2 Adaptive Filters -- 2.3 Linear Filter Structures -- 2.4 Approaches to the Development o f Linear Adaptive Filtering Algorithms -- 2.5 Real and Complex Forms o f Adaptive Filters -- 2.6 Nonlinear Adaptive Systems: Neural Networks -- 2.7 Applications -- 2.8 Concluding Rem arks -- 3 Gaussian Mixtures and Their Applications to Signal Processing Kostantinos N. Plataniotis and Dimitris Hatzinakos -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Mathematical Aspects of Gaussian Mixtures -- 3.3 Methodologies for Mixture Parameter Estim ation -- 3.4 Computer Generation of Mixture Variables -- 3.5 Mixture Applications -- 3.6 Concluding Remarks -- 4 Matched Field Processing - A Blind System Identification Technique -- 4 .1 Introduction -- 4.2 Blind System Identification -- 4.3 Cross-Relation Matched Field Processor -- 4.4 Time-Frequency Matched Field Processor -- 4.5 Higher Order Matched Field Processors -- 4.6 Simulation and Experimental Examples -- 5 Model-Based Ocean Acoustic Signal Processing -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Model-Based Processing -- 5.3 State-Space Ocean Acoustic Forward Propagators -- 5.4 Ocean Acoustic Model-Based Processing Applications -- 5.5 Summary -- 6 Advanced Beamformers Stergios Stergiopoulos -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Background -- 6.3 Theoretical Remarks -- 6.4 Optimum Estimators for Array Signal Processing -- 6.5 Advanced Beamformers -- 6.6 Implementation Considerations