This book presents various application areas of computing in the automotive sector. The authors explain how computing enhances the performance of vehicles, covering the applications of computing in smart transportation and the future scope. The authors focus on computing for vehicle safety in conjunction with the latest technologies in Internet of Things (IoT). The book provides a holistic approach to computing in an inter-disciplinary and unified view. Topics covered include driverless automated navigation systems, smart transportation, self-learning systems, in-vehicle intelligent systems, and off-road vehicle diagnosis and maintenance, among others. The authors include simulated examples and case studies for better understanding of the technologies and applications. The book is intended for a wide range of readers from students to researchers and industry practitioners and is a useful resource for those planning to pursue research in the area of computing and autonomous driving vehicles.

The signal processing (SP) landscape has been enriched by recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), yielding new tools for signal estimation, classification, prediction, and manipulation. Layered signal representations, nonlinear function approximation and nonlinear signal prediction are now feasible at very large scale in both dimensionality and data size. These are leading to significant performance gains in a variety of long-standing problem domains like speech and Image analysis. As well as providing the ability to construct new classes of nonlinear functions (e.g., fusion, nonlinear filtering). This book will help academics, researchers, developers, graduate and undergraduate students to comprehend complex SP data across a wide range of topical application areas such as social multimedia data collected from social media networks, medical imaging data, data from Covid tests etc. This book focuses on AI utilization in the speech, image, communications and yirtual reality domains.

Electromyography (EMG) signal gives an electrical representation of neuromuscular activation associated with contracting muscle provides information about the performance of muscles and nerves. EMG signal acquires noise while traveling through different tissues. With the appropriate choice of the Wavelet Function (WF), it is possible to remove interference noise. Higher Order Statistics (HOS) can suppress white Gaussian noise in detection, parameter estimation and solve classification problems. Based on the RMS error, it is noticed that WF db2 can perform denoising most effectively among the other WFs (db6, db8, dmey). Power spectrum analysis is performed to the denoised EMG where mean power frequency is calculated to indicate changes in muscle contraction. Gaussianity and linearity tests are conducted to understand changes in muscle contraction. According to the results, increase in muscle contraction provides significant increase in EMG mean power frequency. The study also verifies that the power spectrum of EMG shows a shift to lower frequencies during fatigue. The bispectrum analysis shows that the signal becomes less Gaussian and more linear with increasing muscle force.