This is a course of Wavelet taught by Prof Adhemar Bultheel at KULeuven:
https://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~adhemar.bultheel/WWW/WAVE/contents.html
ps, pdf and zip on this page last modified: Thursday 26 October 2006, 08:07:19 AM CEST.
list of errata [ Last update: Tue May 22 19:00:07 CEST 2001 ]
Table of Contents (ps,pdf,zip)
This is the table of contents of the lecture notes.
- Introduction 1 (ps,pdf,zip)
- Signals 10 (ps,pdf,zip)
- Fourier transforms 10
- The time domain 13
- Digital signals 13
- Analog signals 14
- The frequency domain 16
- Digital signals 16
- Analog signals 18
- Sampling theorem 19
- Subsampling and upsampling of a discrete signal 22
- The Heisenberg uncertainty principle 24
- Time-frequency plane 26
- Summary 28
- Exercises 29
- Filters 32 (ps,pdf,zip)
- Definitions 32
- Inverse filter 34
- Bandpass filters 35
- QMF and PCF filters 38
- Exercises 38
- Filter banks 40 (ps,pdf,zip)
- Analysis and synthesis 40
- Perfect reconstruction 43
- Lossless filter bank 44
- Polyphase matrix 46
- Note on orthogonality 48
- Exercises 50
- Multiresolution 51 (ps,pdf,zip)
- Introduction 51
- Bases and frames 52
- Discrete versus continuous wavelet transform 55
- Definition of a multiresolution analysis 57
- The scaling function or father function 58
- Solution of the dilation equation 59
- Solution by iteration 60
- Solution by Fourier analysis 62
- Solution by recursion 63
- Solution by the cascade algorithm 64
- Properties of the scaling function 64
- General properties 65
- Orthogonality 67
- The wavelet or mother function 70
- Existence of the wavelet 72
- A more informal approach 75
- Summary 76
- Exercises 77
- Wavelet transform and filter banks 80 (ps,pdf,zip)
- Wavelet expansion and filtering 80
- Filter bank interpretation 84
- Fast Wavelet Transform 85
- Wavelets by linear algebra 89
- The wavelet crime 90
- Biorthogonal wavelets 91
- Semi-orthogonal wavelets 94
- Multi wavelets 95
- Exercises 96
- Approximating properties and wavelet design 97 (ps,pdf,zip)
- Smoothness 97
- Approximation 98
- Design properties: overview 99
- Some well known wavelets 99
- Haar wavelet 99
- Shannon or sinc wavelet 100
- Mexican hat function 100
- Morlet wavelet 101
- Meyer wavelet 101
- Daubechies maxflat wavelets 101
- Symlets 103
- Coiflets 104
- CDF or biorthogonal spline wavelets 105
- Battle-Lemarié wavelet 109
- Discrete versus continuous wavelet transforms revisited 110
- Overcomplete wavelet transform 111
- Redundant discrete wavelet transform 111
- Exercises 113
- Multidimensional wavelets 115 (ps,pdf,zip)
- Tensor product wavelets 115
- Nonseparable wavelets 118
- Examples of 2D CWT wavelets 121
- The 2D Mexican hat 122
- The 2D Morlet wavelet 122
- Subdivision and lifting 123 (ps,pdf,zip)
- In place Haar transform 123
- Interpolating subdivision 126
- Averaging subdivision 128
- Second generation wavelets 130
- Multiresolution 130
- The wavelets 132
- The lifting scheme 134
- The Euclidean algorithm 137
- Applications 145 (ps,pdf,zip)
- Signal processing 145
- NMR Spectroscopy 145
- Music and audio signals 146
- ECG signals 150
- Image processing 152
- Image compression 152
- Image denoising 156
- Wavelet modulation in communication channels 162
- Other applications 165
- Edge detection 166
- Contrast enhancement 166
- Texture analysis 167
- Computer graphics 169
- Numerical analysis 169
- Exercises 169
- Software and internet 171 (ps,pdf,zip)
- Bibliography (for this text) 172 (ps,pdf,zip)
- List of acronyms 174 + index (ps ,pdf,zip)
- Bibliography (books on wavelets)
The complete text as a zip archive (1.9M) ps (7.9M), pdf (1.7M).
Revised text with Daan Huybrechs (2011) pdf (2.0M).
Slides used in the lessons (pdf format): lesson 1 | lesson 2 | lesson 3 | lesson 4 | [Wednesday September 2006, 27 18:14:26 CEST]
Slides in printable version (pdf format): lesson 1 | lesson 2 | lesson 3 | lesson 4 | [Wednesday September 2006, 27 18:14:26 CEST]