A Friendly Guide to Wavelets

• Main Author: Kaiser, Gerald (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston : Birkhäuser Boston, 2011.
• Series: Modern Birkhäuser Classics
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Fourier analysis.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Physics.; Applications of Mathematics.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.; Fourier Analysis.

I wholeheartedly recommend this book for a solid and friendly introduction to wavelets, for anyone who is comfortable with the mathematics required of undergraduate electrical engineers. The book's appeal is that it covers all the fundamental concepts of wavelets in an elegant, straightforward...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Suggestions to the Reader
• Symbols, Conventions, and Transforms
• Part I: Basic Wavelet Analysis. Preliminaries: Background and Notation
• Windowed Fourier Transforms
• Continuous Wavelet Transforms
• Generalized Frames: Key to Analysis and Synthesis
• Discrete Time-Frequency Analysis and Sampling
• Discrete Time-Scale Analysis
• Multiresolution Analysis
• Daubechies’ Orthonormal Wavelet Bases
• Part II: Physical Wavelets
• Introduction to Wavelet Electromagnetics
• Applications to Radar and Scattering
• Wavelet Acoustics
• References
• Index.