Yves Meyer, Wavelet Expert, Wins Abel Prize

[enriquto]

His work on wavelets is seminal and astonishing.

He has not stopped working, ever; with recent contributions to the detection of gravitational waves and the theory of quasicrystals.

[agumonkey]

I'm sad not to know him already.

[nature24]

Live presentation now: http://www.abelprisen.no/artikkel/vis.html?tid=69572

[zmgehlke]

Does anyone know of a good introduction to wavelets?

Books or papers; let's say at the level of math heavy CS/undergrad math degree.

[pdelbarba]

Depends on what you're trying to do with them since they have a few applications. This presentation is a rough but simple overview: http://cs.haifa.ac.il/hagit/courses/seminars/wavelets/Presen...

Here's an online demo for a C library that can do DWT and CWT. The code is a little rough but it's functional: http://rafat.github.io/#/sites/wavelib/front

Also, a really basic but easy to understand video series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX1-xGVFqmw

[thisrod]

The classic is Ten Lectures on Wavelets by Ingrid Daubechies. If anyone can recommend a more recent book, I'd be interested too.

[__mbm__]

"A Wavelet Tour of Signal Processing" by Stephan Mallat is pretty good if you've got a background in signal processing at the undergrad EE level. Math heavy CS may require some recollection of linear algebra and numerical algorithms.

[dannylandau]

Ironically, was actually contemplating implementing wavelets approach in our project, so very timely!