Elements of Wavelets for Engineers and Scientists

An indispensable guide to understanding wavelets
Elements of Wavelets for Engineers and Scientists is a guide towavelets for "the rest of us"-practicing engineers and scientists,nonmathematicians who want to understand and apply such tools asfast Fourier and wavelet transforms. It is carefully designed tohelp professionals in nonmathematical fields comprehend this verymathematically sophisticated topic and be prepared for furtherstudy on a more mathematically rigorous level.
Detailed discussions, worked-out examples, drawings, and drillproblems provide step-by-step guidance on fundamental concepts suchas vector spaces, metric, norm, inner product, basis, dimension,biorthogonality, and matrices.
Chapters explore . . .
* Functions and transforms
* The sampling theorem
* Multirate processing
* The fast Fourier transform
* The wavelet transform
* QMF filters
* Practical wavelets and filters
. . . as well as many new wavelet applications-image compression,turbulence, and pattern recognition, for instance-that haveresulted from recent synergies in fields such as quantum physicsand seismic geology.
Elements of Wavelets for Engineers and Scientists is a must forevery practicing engineer, scientist, computer programmer, andstudent needing a practical, top-to-bottom grasp of wavelets.