Provides a digest of the current developments, open questions and unsolved problems likely to determine a new frontier for future advanced study and research in the rapidly growing areas of wavelets, wavelet transforms, signal analysis, and signal and image processing. Key topics covered include multivariate wavelets, wavelet transforms, time-frequency signal analysis, self-similarity and intermittency problems in turbulence, wavelet image compression, class of band-limited wavelets and multiresolution analysis. For advanced students, practitioners, and professionals working in electrical/computer engineering, applied mathematics, computer science, biomedical engineering, physics, optics and fluid mechanics.

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Autorentext
Lokenath Debnath is Professor of the Department of Mathematics and Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in pure mathematics from the University of Calcutta, and obtained D.I.C. and Ph.D. degrees in applied mathematics from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London. He was a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge and has had visiting appointments to several universities in the United States and abroad. His many honors and awards include two Senior Fulbright Fellowships and an NSF Scientist award to visit India for lectures and research. Dr. Debnath is author or co-author of several books and research papers in pure and applied mathematics, and serves on several editorial boards for scientific journals. He is the current and founding Managing Editor of theInternational Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences.

Inhalt
I Wavelets and Wavelet Transforms.- 1 The Wavelet Transform and Time-Frequency Analysis.- 2 Multiwavelets in ?n with an Arbitrary Dilation Matrix.- 3 On the Nonexistence of Certain Divergence-free Multiwavelets.- 4 Osiris Wavelets and Isis Variables.- 5 Wavelets for Statistical Estimation and Detection.- II Signal Processing and Time-Frequency Signal Analysis 133.- 6 High Performance Time-Frequency Distributions for Practical Applications.- 7 Covariant Time-Frequency Analysis.- 8 Time-Frequency/Time-Scale Reassignment.- 9 Spatial Time-Frequency Distributions: Theory and Applications.- 10 Time-Frequency Processing of Time-Varying Signals with Nonlinear Group Delay.- 11 Self-Similarity and Intermittency.- 12 Selective Thresholding in Wavelet Image Compression.- 13 Coherent Vortex Simulation of Two-and Three-Dimensional Turbulent Flows Using Orthogonal Wavelets.