Instructor: Vasily Strela
Office: 279 Korman Center
Phone: (215) 895-6823
E-mail: vstrela@mcs.drexel.edu
URL: http://www.mcs.drexel.edu/~vstrela/MATH642

Office hours: Tuesday 3-5pm or by appointment.

Text: Wavelets and Filter Banks by G. Strang and T. Nguyen, Wellesley-Cambridge Press, Wellesley, MA, 1996.

Homework and Grading: There will be one or two homework assignments and a final project. You are encouraged to work together on homework problems and to seek help during office hours. However, you must write up homework assignments by yourself.
Copying any part of an assignment is considered to be cheating. Work on the final project must be individual.

There is no exams in this class. Final grade will be based on the homework grades (50%) and on the grade for the project (50%).

Course Outline:  This class is the last in the three term sequence. We will finish with wavelet theory and then will concentrate on the applications of wavelets and filter banks.In particular we plan to talk about:

• Lifting.
• Wavelet packets.
• Wavelet bases on an interval.
• Local cosine bases.
• Wavelets in 2 dimensions.
• Multiwavelets.
• Image compression.
• Signal denoising.
• Solution of differential equations using wavelets.