CONTENTS

Preface

Acknowledgments

1   Introduction: Why Wavelets?

2   Vectors and Matrices

2.1   Vectors, Inner Products, and Norms

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2.2   Basic Matrix Theory

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2.3   Block Matrix Arithmetic

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3   An Introduction to Digital Images

3.1   The Basics of Grayscale Digital Images

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3.2   Color Images and Color Spaces

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3.3   Qualitative and Quantitative Measures

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3.4   Huffman Encoding

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4   Complex Numbers and Fourier Series

4.1   The Complex Plane and Arithmetic

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4.2   Complex Exponential Functions

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4.3   Fourier Series

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5   Convolution and Filters

5.1   Convolution

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5.2   Filters

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5.3   Convolution as a Matrix Product

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6   The Haar Wavelet Transformation

6.1   Constructing the Haar Wavelet Transformation

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6.2   Iterating the Process

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6.3   The Two-Dimensional Haar Wavelet Transformation

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6.4   Applications: Image Compression and Edge Detection

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7   Daubechies Wavelet Transformations

7.1   Daubechies Filters of Length 4 and 6

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7.2   Daubechies Filters of Even Length

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7.3   Algorithms for Daubechies Wavelet Transformations

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8   Orthogonality and Fourier Series

8.1 Fourier Series and Lowpass ...

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