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==Background: Why Wavelets?==
 
==Background: Why Wavelets?==
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*I can bet a great deal of money, that as Electrical Engineers, the first name that comes to mind when someone says "SIGNAL PROCESSING" is Fourier.
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*Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768 - 1830) laid a rock-solid foundation for signal analysis, when he claimed that all (continuously differentiable) signals can be represented as the sums of sines and cosines.
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*It is hard to imagine the iPod generation without the work this great man did over 2 centuries ago.
  
  
 
==REFERENCES==
 
==REFERENCES==
  
[1] http://www.amara.com/ftpstuff/IEEEwavelet.pdf
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*[1] http://www.amara.com/ftpstuff/IEEEwavelet.pdf
[2] http://www-math.mit.edu/~gs/papers/amsci.pdf
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*[2] http://www-math.mit.edu/~gs/papers/amsci.pdf

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Introduction to Wavelets

Taking Fourier's torch forward...



Background: Why Wavelets?

  • I can bet a great deal of money, that as Electrical Engineers, the first name that comes to mind when someone says "SIGNAL PROCESSING" is Fourier.
  • Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768 - 1830) laid a rock-solid foundation for signal analysis, when he claimed that all (continuously differentiable) signals can be represented as the sums of sines and cosines.
  • It is hard to imagine the iPod generation without the work this great man did over 2 centuries ago.


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