Multivariate Time Series Analysis -- Surrogate Data — A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis -- Multiscale Approximation -- Inverse Problems and Parameter Identification in Image Processing -- Analysis of Bivariate Coupling by Means of Recurrence -- Structural Adaptive Smoothing Procedures -- Nonlinear Analysis of Multi-Dimensional Signals: Local Adaptive Estimation of Complex Motion and Orientation Patterns.

The aim of this volume is to bring together research directions in theoretical signal and imaging processing developed rather independently in electrical engineering, theoretical physics, mathematics and the computer sciences. In particular, mathematically justified algorithms and methods, the mathematical analysis of these algorithms, and methods as well as the investigation of connections between methods from time series analysis and image processing are reviewed. An interdisciplinary comparison of these methods, drawing upon common sets of test problems from medicine and geophysical/enviromental sciences, is also addressed. This volume coherently summarizes work carried out in the field of theoretical signal and image processing. It focuses on non-linear and non-parametric models for time series as well as on adaptive methods in image processing.