Wavelet Analysis and Its Applications [electronic resource] : Second International Conference, WAA 2001 Hong Kong, China, December 18–20, 2001 Proceedings / edited by Yuan Y. Tang, Pong C. Yuen, Chun-hung Li, Victor Wickerhauser.

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 for Lighting-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 Machine Faults -- 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.