First Announcement
WORKSHOP COURSE
on
WAVELETS AND FILTER BANKS
taught by Gilbert Strang (MIT) and
Truong Nguyen (Boston University)
Wednesday-Thursday-Friday of July 23-24-25, 1997
George Mason University: Fairfax VA near Washington D.C.
TEXT:
Participants will receive the new textbook (published in 1996):
WAVELETS AND FILTER BANKS
by Strang and Nguyen
Wellesley-Cambridge Press, Box 812060, Wellesley MA 02181
This text is already in class use in many EE and mathematics
departments. It was chosen to accompany MATLAB's Wavelet
Toolbox, which will be the simulation software at the
Wavelet Workshop. We also have a new
IMAGE CODER by Truong Nguyen (1997).
This will be used at the Workshop and it will be provided only to participants.
We will aim for the right balance of theory and applications.
The text gives an overall perspective of the field -
which has grown with amazing speed.
General topics covered:
1. Analysis of Filter Banks and Wavelets
2. Design Methods
3. Applications (from Lecturers and Participants)
4. Hands-on Experience with Software (including image coding)
These four key areas will be developed in detail:
- 1. Analysis
- Multirate Signal Processing: Filtering, Decimation, Polyphase
- Perfect Reconstruction and Aliasing Removal
- Matrix Analysis: Toeplitz Matrices and Fast Algorithms
- Wavelet Transform: Pyramid and Cascade Algorithms
- Daubechies Wavelets, Orthogonal and Biorthogonal Wavelets
- Smoothness, Approximation, Boundary Filters and Wavelets
- Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Analysis
- 2. Design Methods
- Spectral Factorization
- Cosine-Modulated Filter Banks
- Eigenfilters and Quadratic Constrained Least Squares
- Lattice Structure
- Ladder Structure (Lifting)
- 3. Applications
- Audio and Image Compression, Quantization Effects
- Transient Detection and Non-Destructive Evaluation
- Digital Communication and Multicarrier Modulation
- Transmultiplexers
- Text-Image Compression: Lossy and Lossless
- Medical Imaging and Scientific Visualization
- Image Compression / Image Segmentation / Video Compression
- 4. Simulation Software
- MATLAB Wavelet Toolbox
- ECG Compression
- New IMAGE CODER
The goal of the Workshop is to be as useful as possible to all
participants. Please request information by an email message
with subject Workshop to the organizer
Gilbert Strang: gs@math.mit.edu
We will reply about the program, tuition cost and housing.
The tuition includes the textbook and software.
It will be the same as in 1995 and 1996 (San Jose, Tampa, and San Diego
Workshops).
It is reduced by 50% for graduate students.
We are very glad to answer all questions by e-mail.
Our Web sites are
http://saigon.ece.wisc.edu/~waveweb/QMF.html and http://www-math.mit.edu/~gs.
Prof. Gilbert Strang
Department of Mathematics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room 2-240
Cambridge MA 02139
(617) 253-4383, Fax: (617) 253-4358, gs@math.mit.edu
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