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FIGURE 15.5: The non-standard decomposition of the two-dimensional DWT
15.3 Wavelets and Images
Each of MATLAB, Octave, and Python has some wavelet functionality, either built in
or available through an added toolbox or package. However, the standard packages all seem
to work a little differently. Happily for us, there is an open-source wavelet package with
bindings f or each of MATLAB, Octave, and Python f rom Rice University, obtainable from
http://dsp.rice.edu/software/rice-wavelet-toolbox
Assuming that the toolbox has been downloaded and installed, we can try it, using the
same