| General Notation 
 | Interpretation 
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 | Dyadic scale.  is the level, 1/  or  is the resolution. 
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 | Dyadic translation 
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 | Continuous time 
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|  or  
 | Discrete time 
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 | Pixel 
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 | Signal or image. The signal is a function defined on  or  ; the image is defined on  or  . 
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 | Fourier transform of the function f or the sequence f 
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| Continuous Time 
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 | Set of signals of finite energy 
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 | Energy of the signal  
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 | Scalar product of signals  and  
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 | Set of images of finite energy 
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 | Energy of the image  
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 | Scalar product of images  and  
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| Discrete Time 
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 | Set of signals of finite energy 
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 | Energy of the signal  
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 | Scalar product of signals  and  
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 | Set of images of finite energy 
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 | Energy of the image  
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 | Scalar product of images  and  
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| Wavelet Notation 
 | Interpretation 
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| Aj 
 | j-level approximation or approximation at level j 
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| Dj 
 | j-level detail or detail at level j 
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 | Scaling function 
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 | Wavelet 
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 | Family associated with the one-dimensional wavelet, indexed by  and  
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 | Family associated with the two-dimensional wavelet, indexed by 
 
  
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 | Family associated with the one-dimensional scaling function for dyadic scales  ; it should be noted that  . 
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 | Family associated with the one-dimensional  for dyadic scales  ; it should be noted that  . 
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 | Scaling filter associated with a wavelet 
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 | Wavelet filter associated with a wavelet 
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