Introduction

  • Fast Fourier Transform.
  • Strang: American Scientist
  • How to Make Wavelets: R.S. Strichartz's paper in The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 100, No. 6 (June - July, 1993), pp. 539-556.

    • Books

  • Illustrated Wavelet Transform Handbook by Paul S. Addison

    • History

  • Alfred Haar's 1909 dissertation where, in Chapter III, he introduced "The Orthogonal Function System χ" later called "Haar's wavelets"
  • The World According to Wavelets by Barbara Burke Hubbard for history and general information about wavelets.

    • Other Courses

    Web Sites

  • Wavelet Digest (& Overview)(thru 2006)
  • 1996 SIGGRAPH Wavelets in Computer Graphics Course

    • Demonstations

  • Mathematica Notebooks
  • Matlab Wavelet ToolBox
  • Mathematica Wavelet Explorer
  • FAWAV Program

    • Applications

  • Wavelets for Graphics
  • Seismic Data
  • Storage of fingerprints (see Fingerprints Go Digital by Christopher M. Brislawn in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 42, Number 11, November 1995.
  • The FBI Fingerprint Image Compression Standard
  • New JPG standard (see e.g. JPEG 2000);