Ten lectures on wavelets
by Ingrid Daubechies · first published 1992
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"This monograph contains 10 lectures presented by Dr. Daubechies as the principal speaker at the 1990 CBMS-NSF Conference on Wavelets and Applications. Wavelets are a mathematical development that many experts think may revolutionize the world of information storage and retrieval. They are a fairly simple mathematical tool now being applied to the compression of data, such as fingerprints, weather satellite photographs, and medical x-rays - that were previously thought to be impossible to condense without losing crucial details. The opening chapter provides an overview of the main problems pre
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The classic is Ten Lectures on Wavelets by Ingrid Daubechies. If anyone can recommend a more recent book, I'd be interested too.
on “Yves Meyer, Wavelet Expert, Wins Abel Prize” ↗…boxes. Somebody ripped the first three songs from the Eurythmics Greatest Hits CD and had them playing on a loop into late nights when we were working on our Wavelets course projects (we had Daubechies's Ten Lectures on Wavelets as the textbook). Good times!
on “A Historical Tour of Silicon Valley (2010)” ↗