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    • Week 1:
      Introduction and Overview.
      Why wavelets, subband coding and multiresolution signal processing.
      The course at coarse resolution.

    • Week 2:
      Fourier theory, sampling, signal processing, time-frequency representations.
      Hilbert spaces, orthonormal bases.

    • Week 3:
      Multirate signal processing: review
      Discrete-time bases.

    • Week 4:
      Analysis of Haar and Sinc Expansions of Discrete-Time Signals.
      Orthonormal and Linear Phase filter banks.

    • Week 5:
      Construction of Daubechies filters.
      Lattice Factorization of Filter Banks.

    • Week 6:
      Construction by lifting: "next-generation" wavelets.
      Tree-structured filter banks and Wavelet-Packets.

    • Week 7:
      Multichannel Filter Banks / IIR filter banks.
      Discrete-Time Wavelet Series.

    • Week 8:
      Lapped Orthogonal Transforms.
      Series Expansions of Continuous-Time Signals.
      Haar and Sinc wavelets.

    • Week 9:
      Multiresolution concept and analysis.
      Wavelets derived from iterated filter banks: Regularity.

    • Week 10:
      Wavelet Series: Mallat's algorithm.
      Continuous Wavelet Transform and Frames.

    • Week 11:
      Adapted wavelet and wavelet packet representations.
      Best Bases algorithms.
      Arbitrary tilings of the time-frequency plane based on wavelets.

    • Week 12:
      Applications to signal compression.
      Review of Rate-Distortion, KLT, Optimal Bit Allocation principles.
      Basics of Quantization Theory.

    • Week 13:
      Applications to image and video compression.
      State-of-the-art wavelet image coders:
      Role of wavelets in next-generation image compression standard JPEG-2000.

    • Week 14:
      Applications of multiresolution concept to communications/networking:
      Joint source-channel coding, broadcast and multicast.
      Video over the Internet and Wireless Channels.

    • Week 15:
      Other applications: Denoising & restoration, telecommunications,
      computer graphics, etc. (time-permitting).


    Last modified:August 10 1999