Ten lectures on wavelets
"This monograph contains 10 lectures presented by Dr. Daubechies as the principal speaker at the 1990 CBMS-NSF Conference on Wavelets and Applications. Wavelets are a mathematical development that many experts think may revolutionize the world of information storage and retrieval. They are a fairly simple mathematical tool now being applied to the compression of data, such as fingerprints, weather satellite photographs, and medical x-rays - that were previously thought to be impossible to condense without losing crucial details. The opening chapter provides an overview of the main problems presented in the book. Following chapters discuss the theoretical and practical aspects of wavelet theory, including wavelet transforms, orthonormal bases of wavelets, and characterization of functional spaces by means of wavelets. The last chapter presents several topics under active research, as multidimensional wavelets, wavelet packet bases, and a construction of wavelets tailored to decompose functions defined in a finite interval." -- Publisher's description.
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- The classic is Ten Lectures on Wavelets by Ingrid Daubechies. If anyone can recommend a more recent book, I'd be interested too.
- This was a great walk down the memory lane for me: I was a research intern at IBM Almaden in the summer of 2000 (crash learning C++ from Horton's Beginning Visual C++, I was a Unix/C person) and shopped at Fry's in Sunnyvale. We used to have lunch with interns from HP and other companies and visited Xerox PARC, it was like visiting Shangri La!
When I first visited the US in 1992 I visited the Silicon Graphics buildings where the person who hosted me worked, it felt infinitely innovative. In 2000 they (now SGI) had built these cool buildings (which is now the Google campus) and offered free dinner for employees and families on Tuesday evenings. You don't get to hear about them much.
In 1993 we had a brand new Silicon Graphics Indy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Indy) in our lab and loved it, so different from the beige boxes. Somebody ripped the first three songs from the Eurythmics Greatest Hits CD and had them playing on a loop into late nights when we were working on our Wavelets course projects (we had Daubechies's Ten Lectures on Wavelets as the textbook).
Good times!
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