Wavelet Toolbox

For More Background

The Wavelet Toolbox provides a complete introduction to wavelets and assumes no previous knowledge of the area. The toolbox allows you to use wavelet techniques on your own data immediately and develop new insights.

It is our hope that, through the use of these practical tools, you may want to explore the beautiful underlying mathematics and theory.

Excellent supplementary texts provide complementary treatments of wavelet theory and practice (see References). For instance:

• Burke-Hubbard [Bur96] is an historical and up-to-date text presenting the concepts using everyday words.
• Daubechies [Dau92], is a classic for the mathematics.
• Kaiser, [Kai94], is a mathematical tutorial, and a physics oriented book.
• Mallat [Mal98] is a 1998 book, which includes recent developments, and consequently is one of the most complete.
• Meyer [Mey93] is the "father" of the wavelet books.
• Strang-Nguyen [StrN96], is especially useful for signal processing engineers. It offers a clear and easy-to-understand introduction to two central ideas: filter banks for discrete signals, and for wavelets. It fully explains the connection between the two. Many exercises in the book are drawn from the Wavelet Toolbox.

For other interesting books by Cohen, Chui, Lemarié, Vetterli-Kovacevic, Wickerhauser, and so on, refer also to References.

The Wavelet Digest Internet site (http://www.wavelet.org) provides much useful and practical information.

Using This Guide

Installing the Wavelet Toolbox