An important book that cover WAVELET domain. It help a lot in understanding WAVELETs and their applications.
Beside explanations of the transform and application of this, there are also presents the reasons why WAVELETs are better than Fourier transform.
A short tour on WAVELETs. This documents describes general aspects in WAVELET field. It concerns a mathematical approach and can be used as a teaching material.
Abstract—The contourlet transform is a new two-dimensional
extension of the WAVELET transform using multiscale and direc-
tional fi lter banks. The contourlet expansion is composed of
basis images oriented at various directions in multiple scales,
with fl exible aspect ratios. Given this rich set of basis images,
the contourlet transform effectively captures smooth contours
that are the dominant feature in natural images.
