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Multiresolution Signal Decomposition: Transforms, Subbands, and Wavelets (Telecommunications)

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It is the most comprehensive book on multiresolution transforms and state-of-the-art applications. It provides the theoretical depth without getting lost in the math. It leads the reader to the popular communications and multimedia applications of transforms like DCT, wavelets and filter banks. Akansu & Haddad need to be saluted for their clarity in a field where hype-let has been the fashion.

2nd Edition of the book is a "MUST" classic in multiresolution signals and transforms as a reference volume for researchers and engineering students.

This book does a good job at providing a unified framework both for wavelets and subband filtering and decomposition, and so I would give it 5 stars were not for it only covers biorthogonal filters in the last chapter, and at the very last moment. If you need to understand how wavelets are related to filtering, signal processing and signal compression, this is your book, but it's not specific to any of this fields, and is very 1D oriented, with 2D processing only mentioned.

In my book pages 53-84 are missing. They are occupied by pages 17-48. Nothing's been ripped out.