Wavelet Analysis and Its Applications: Second International Conference, WAA 2001, Hong Kong, China, December 18-20, 2001. Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, cartea 2251

Keynote Presentations.- Personal Identification in Real-Time by Wavelet Analysis of Iris Patterns.- Hybrid Representations of Audiophonic Signals.- Singularity Detection from Autocovariance via Wavelet Packets.- Image Compression and Coding.- Empirical Evaluation of Boundary Policies for Wavelet-Based Image Coding.- Image-Feature Based Second Generation Watermarking in Wavelet Domain.- A Study on Preconditioning Multiwavelet Systems for Image Compression.- Reduction of Blocking Artifacts in Both Spatial Domain and Transformed Domain.- Simple and Fast Subband De-blocking Technique by Discarding the High Band Signals.- A Method with Scattered Data Spline and Wavelets for Image Compression.- Video Coding and Processing.- A Wavelet-Based Preprocessing for Moving Object Segmentation in Video Sequences.- Embedded Zerotree Wavelet Coding of Image Sequence.- Wavelet-Based Video Compression Using Long-Term Memory Motion-Compensated Prediction and Context-Based Adaptive Arithmetic Coding.- Wavelets and Fractal Image Compression Based on Their Self—Similarity of the Space-Frequency Plane of Images.- Theory.- Integration of Multivariate Haar Wavelet Series.- An Application of Continuous Wavelet Transform in Differential Equations.- Stability of Biorthogonal Wavelet Bases in L 2(R).- Characterization of Dirac Edge with New Wavelet Transform.- Wavelet Algorithm for the Numerical Solution of Plane Elasticity Problem.- Three Novel Models of Threshold Estimator for Wavelet Coefficients.- The PSD of the Wavelet-Packet Modulation.- Orthogonal Multiwavelets with Dilation Factor a.- Image Processing.- A Wavelet-Based Image Indexing, Clustering, and Retrieval Technique Based on Edge Feature.- Wavelet Applications in Segmentation of Handwriting in Archival Documents.- Wavelet Packets forLighting-Effects Determination.- Translation-Invariant Face Feature Estimation Using Discrete Wavelet Transform.- Text Extraction Based on Nonlinear Frame.- A Wavelet Multiresolution Edge Analysis Method for Recovery of Depth from Defocused Images.- Construction of Finite Non-separable Orthogonal Filter Banks with Linear Phase and Its Application in Image Segmentation.- Mixture-State Document Segmentation Using Wavelet-Domain Hidden Markov Tree Models.- Some Experiment Results on Feature Analyses of Stroke Sequence Free Matching Algorithms for On-Line Chinese Character Recognition.- Automatic Detection Algorithm of Connected Segments for On-line Chinese Character Recognition.- Signal Processing.- Speech Signal Deconvolution Using Wavelet Filter Banks.- A Proposal of Jitter Analysis Based on a Wavelet Transform.- Skewness of Gabor Wavelets and Source Signal Separation.- The Application of the Wavelet Transform to Polysomnographic Signals.- Wavelet Transform Method of Waveform Estimation for Hilbert Transform of Fractional Stochastic Signals with Noise.- Multiscale Kalman Filtering of Fractal Signals Using Wavelet Transform.- General Analytic Construction for Wavelet Low-Passed Filters.- A Design of Automatic Speech Playing System Based on WaveletTransform.- General Design of Wavelet High-Pass Filters from Reconstructional Symbol.- Realization of Perfect Reconstruction Non-uniform Filter Banks via a Tree Structure.- Set of Decimators for Tree Structure Filter Banks.- Set of Perfect Reconstruction Non-uniform Filter Banks via a Tree Structure.- Systems and Applications.- Joint Time-Frequency Distributions for Business Cycle Analysis.- The Design of Discrete Wavelet Transformation Chip.- On the Performance of Informative Wavelets for Classification and Diagnosis of MachineFaults.- A Wavelet-Based Ammunition Doppler Radar System.- The Application of Wavelet Analysis Method to Civil Infrastructure Health Monitoring.- Piecewise Periodized Wavelet Transform and Its Realization, Properties and Applications.- Wavelet Transform and Its Application to Decomposition of Gravity Anomalies.- Computations of Inverse Problem by Using Wavelet in Multi-layer Soil.- Wavelets Approach in Choosing Adaptive Regularization Parameter.- DNA Sequences Classification Based on Wavelet Packet Analysis.- The Application of the Wavelet Transform to the Prediction of Gas Zones.- Parameterizations of M-Band Biorthogonal Wavelets.