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Elements of Wavelets for Engineers and Scientists

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This is an excellent short introductory book for anyone who wants to understand and use wavelets via the filtering route. The presentation is entirely self-contained, and includes completely worked out wavelet examples and answers to all exercises. The authors develop wavelets as multirate quadrature mirror filters (explained within the text). Sample matlab source code is provided. Like Mix's text on Random Signal Processing, this one shines as being practical, easy-to-understand, filled with examples and prepares the reader for more advanced work.

Wavelets is a mathematically intensive subject. As such many books on the subject present the topic as an endless list of equations with very little insight.

This book on the other hand presents the material in a fashion that is digestable to the average engineer. This is a credit to their writting and teaching skill. They write as if their first goal is to let you understand (teach) not simply write.

I would say that the first books to read on this subject would be this one and the book by Walker. These books are sufficient to get a good understanding of Wavelets and to be able to use them. They also pave the way for more advanced books on the subject if desired.

Small book with not much details.
I wish I should not have bought this book.

This is one of the best books on wavelets for engineers. As the authors mention most of the wavelet books currently on the market are targeted to mathematicians not engineers. Trust me my dissertation involves wavelets. If you are new to this topic my recommendation is to make sure you understand linear algebra and and some digital signal processing first. The books by Richard Lyons and R. W. Hamming are great. I also really like DSP by Michael Weeks. The classic would be Oppenheim & Schafer.

Probably the first to read is "A primer on wavelets by Walker" This book would be the second as it gets deeper into the definition and mathematical formalism than Walker yet is understandable to engineers. After that I would probably recommend Ripples in Mathematics on lifting and A wavelet tour by Mallat.