Wavelet Transforms and Their Applications

This textbook is an introduction to wavelet transforms and accessible to a larger audience with diverse backgrounds and interests in mathematics, science, and engineering. Emphasis is placed on the logical development of fundamental ideas and systematic treatment of wavelet analysis and its applications to a wide variety of problems as encountered in various interdisciplinary areas. Topics and Features: * This second edition heavily reworks the chapters on Extensions of Multiresolution Analysis and Newlands’s Harmonic Wavelets and introduces a new chapter containing new applications of wavelet transforms* Uses knowledge of Fourier transforms, some elementary ideas of Hilbert spaces, and orthonormal systems to develop the theory and applications of wavelet analysis * Offers detailed and clear explanations of every concept and method, accompanied by carefully selected worked examples, with special emphasis given to those topics in which students typically experience difficulty* Includes carefully chosen end-of-chapter exercises directly associated with applications or formulated in terms of the mathematical, physical, and engineering context and provides answers to selected exercises for additional help Mathematicians, physicists, computer engineers, and electrical and mechanical engineers will find Wavelet Transforms and Their Applications an exceptionally complete and accessible text and reference. It is also suitable as a self-study or reference guide for practitioners and professionals.

Lokenath Debnath, Ph.D., is a Professor of Mathematics at The University of Texas-Pan American. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of London, and a Ph.D. in Pure Mathematics from the University of Calcutta. His areas of interest are applied mathematics, applied partial differential equations, integral transforms, fluid dynamics, and continuum mechanics. Firdous Ahmad Shah, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Post Graduate Department of Mathematics at the University of Kashmir. His areas of specialization are: wavelets, wavelet packets, applications of wavelets in financial time series, and wavelet neural networks.