Wavelets and Signal Processing -

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Résumé :
Provides a digest of the current developments, open questions and unsolved problems likely to determine a new frontier for future advanced study and research in the rapidly growing areas of wavelets, wavelet transforms, signal analysis, and signal and image processing. Key topics covered include multivariate wavelets, wavelet transforms, time-frequency signal analysis, self-similarity and intermittency problems in turbulence, wavelet image compression, class of band-limited wavelets and multiresolution analysis. For advanced students, practitioners, and professionals working in electrical/computer engineering, applied mathematics, computer science, biomedical engineering, physics, optics and fluid mechanics....

Sommaire:
I Wavelets and Wavelet Transforms.- 1 The Wavelet Transform and Time-Frequency Analysis.- 2 Multiwavelets in ?n with an Arbitrary Dilation Matrix.- 3 On the Nonexistence of Certain Divergence-free Multiwavelets.- 4 Osiris Wavelets and Isis Variables.- 5 Wavelets for Statistical Estimation and Detection.- II Signal Processing and Time-Frequency Signal Analysis 133.- 6 High Performance Time-Frequency Distributions for Practical Applications.- 7 Covariant Time-Frequency Analysis.- 8 Time-Frequency/Time-Scale Reassignment.- 9 Spatial Time-Frequency Distributions: Theory and Applications.- 10 Time-Frequency Processing of Time-Varying Signals with Nonlinear Group Delay.- 11 Self-Similarity and Intermittency.- 12 Selective Thresholding in Wavelet Image Compression.- 13 Coherent Vortex Simulation of Two-and Three-Dimensional Turbulent Flows Using Orthogonal Wavelets.

The Editor of this volume has performed a commendable job of compiling a set of articles, a majority of which can be branded as excellent, into a single volume, which includes state-of-the-art theoretical results as well as some applications. The book will be useful for researchers as well as practicing professionals, not only because of its contents, but also because of the fact that it provides directions for future developments. -Journal of the Indian Institute of Science A mathematically sound and self-contained presentation on recent advances in the highly applicable field of Gabor analysis.... This book is a must for all interested in signal analysis, and, of course, in particular in Gabor analysis. -Monatschefte f?r Mathematik