An introduction to wavelet analysis

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The book is a nice addition to the Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis series of Birkhäuser. It describes wavelet theory without assuming a long chain of prerequisites like knowledge of Hilbert spaces and Lebesgue measure theory; hereby the material is accessible for less advanced readers. The book is intended for use in a graduate course and contains exercises, mainly of theoretical nature. It is carefully prepared, well organized, and covers a large part of the central theory. The book consists of five parts as follows. The Preliminaries aims at making the book self-contained, and collects all the facts from analysis which are needed later. An important part is devoted to Fourier series (as well as more general orthonormal systems) and their convergence; another Chapter deals with the Fourier transform, the inversion formula, and Plancherel's formula. The last Chapter in the preliminaries describes the basic facts about linear systems. Furthermore, one of the two appendices states the fundamental results in linear algebra and calculus. The second part is devoted to the Haar system, as well on \([0,1]\) and \(\mathbb{R}\) as in the discrete setting. This part of the book can be used separately in, e.g., a course on advanced analysis or Fourier analysis, but in the context of the book it serves as motivation for the search for other wavelet systems with more pleasant properties. This study is then initiated in the next part about orthonormal wavelet bases. Here, the general theory of multiresolution analysis is presented with many examples: first, the Haar function is recalled, and later (among others) constructions where \(V_0\) consists of piecewise linear functions or splines are discussed. Other chapters deal with the discrete wavelet transform and compactly supported wavelets. A large section gives a detailed analysis of the role of vanishing moments. The fourth part deals with other wavelet constructions. Here the reader finds chapters on biorthogonal wavelets and wavelet packets, topics which are rare in wavelet books. Both are important, and this feature is certainly an extra argument in favour of the book. The last part is devoted to Applications; the first is to image compression and coding, while the second on integral operators is more theoretical; here, the Radon transform and the Hilbert transform are treated, as well as the Beylkin-Coifman-Rokhlin algorithm for approximation of an integral operator. An appendix contains material about extensions of the classical wavelet theory, for example wavelets which can not be constructed via multiresolution analysis, multiwavelets, and wavelets on other domains than \(\mathbb{R}\).




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