EC709

Wavelet Signal Processing      3-0-0-3

COURSE OBJECTIVE

  • To expose the students to the basics of wavelet theory and to illustrate the use of wavelet processing for data compression and noise suppression.

 

COURSE CONTENT

Limitations  of  standard  Fourier  analysis.  Windowed  Fourier  transform.  Continuous  wavelet  transform. Time-frequency resolution.

Wavelet bases. Balian-Low theorem. Multiresolution analysis. (MRA). Construction of wavelets from MRA. Fast wavelet algorithm.

Compactly supported wavelets. Cascade algorithm. Franklin and spline wavelets. Wavelet packets.Hilbert space frames. Frame representation. Representation of signals by frames. Iterative reconstruction. Frame algorithm.

Wavelet methods for signal processing. Noise suppression. Representation of noise-corrupted signals using frames. Algorithm for reconstruction from corrupted frame representation.

Wavelet methods for image processing. Burt- Adelson and Mallat’s pyramidal decomposition schemes. 2D- dyadic wavelet transform.

 

Text Books

1.   E.Hernandez & G.Weiss, A First Course on Wavelets, CRC Press, 1996.

2.   L.Prasad & S.S.Iyengar, Wavelet Analysis with Applications to Image Processing, CRC Press, 1997.

 

Reference Books

1.   A.Teolis, Computational Signal Processing with Wavelets, Birkhauser, 1998

2.   R.M. Rao & A.S. Bopardikar, Wavelet Transforms, Addition Wesley, 1998.

3.   J.C. Goswami & A.K. Chan, Fundamentals of Wavelets, John Wiley,1999.

 

COURSE OUTCOMES

Students are able to

CO1:  understand  about  windowed  Fourier  transform  and  difference  between  windowed  Fourier transform and wavelet transform.

CO2: understand wavelet basis and characterize continuous and discrete wavelet transforms

CO3:  understand  multi  resolution  analysis  and  identify  various  wavelets  and  evaluate  their  time- frequency resolution properties

CO4: implement discrete wavelet transforms with multirate digital filters

CO5: understand about wavelet packets

        CO6: design certain classes of wavelets to specification and justify the basis of the application of wavelet transforms to different fields