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Wavelet analysis provides very powerful problem-solving tools for analyzing, encoding, compressing, reconstructing, and modeling signals and images. The amount of wavelets-related software has been constantly multiplying. Many wavelet analysis tools are widely available. This overview represents a significant survey for many currently available packages. It will be of great benefit to engineers and researchers for using the toolkits and developing new software. The beginner to learning wavelets can also get a great help from the review. If you browse around at some of the Internet sites listed in the reference of this paper, you may find more plentiful wavelet resources.
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Foundation item: (1) Supported by Foundation for University Key Teacher by the Ministry of Education; (2) Funded By Open Research Fund Program of LIESMARS (WKL970102)
Biography: Fan Qi-bin (1956-), male, Professor, research direction; the theory and applications of nonlinear analysis and wavelet, image compression, and computer vision.
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Qi-bin, F., Hong, L. An overview on wavelet software packages. Wuhan Univ. J. of Nat. Sci. 6, 593–600 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03160308
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03160308