Everything you always wanted to know about wavelets and did not dare to ask: application of wavelets to multiscale analysis and non-linear estimation

Felix J. Herrmann, felix@erl.mit.edu, 617-253-7864

Earth Resources Laboratory, EAPS

In this 4-week 16-hour special course we will review the application of wavelets and related transforms to geophysical data analysis and estimation. Extensive use will be made of Mallat's ``A Wavelet tour of signal processing''. Topics include: fractal analysis by the continuous wavelet transform; construction of discrete wavelets from (fractional) splines (including a lecture by Michael Unser on Thursday March 7 at 11:00); design of non-linear mini-max estimators by thresholding. Applications include: scaling analysis sedimentary records and seismic data; edge-preserving denoising and deconvolution; hands-on examples using Donoho's WaveLab (in matlab).

For detailed information on this seminar series please check www.eos.ubc.ca/~felix/Teaching/SetUp.pdf

The seminar series will start Monday March 4 Mondays (12:30-2:30) and Thursdays noon-2. Exact location within ERL (E34) will be announced.

Please make sure to read the two papers by Vetterli and Unser (See www.eos.ubc.ca/~felix/Teaching/SetUp.pdf)

Felix Herrmann
Last modified: Wed Feb 6 19:05:40 EST 2002