6.2. Wavelets:

Wavelets have been successfully applied in image processing and data compression. As an approach in
time-frequency domain, wavelets have been applied to analyze, compress, and denoise signals and images.

Software –

Matlab Wavelets Toolbox

Books –

Wavelets and Filter Banks
by Gilbert Strang, Truong Nguyen
490 pages
Wellesley Cambridge Press, 1996
ISBN: 0961408871

Time-Frequency/Time-scale Analysis
by Patrick Flandrin, Loachim Stockler (Translator)
386 pages
Academic Press, 1999
ISBN: 0122598709

Class Notes –

Wavelets, Filter Banks and Applications

Educational Project –

A vivid real-time educational demonstration broadcast through the internet for instrumentation, data acquisition
and data processing to monitor a real structure, a flag pole.
Flog Pole, MIT

People –

In civil engineering, a partial list of the researchers who are active in the fundamental research on wavelets
and/or who are applying wavelet decomposition to structural dynamics, earthquake engineering and
structural health monitoring is as follows:

Kevin S. Amaratunga
Wieslaw J. Staszewski
Zhikun Hou
Tracy L. Kijewski-Correa
Maria I. Todorovska