Accepted for publication in Journal of Electronic Imaging (oct. 2007) To be published in 2008 A review on Industrial applications of wavelet and multiresolution based signal-image processing Fred Truchetet, Olivier Laligant Le2i UMR 5158 CNRS - Universit´ede Bourgogne 12 rue de la Fonderie, 71200 Le Creusot, France Further author information: send correspondence to F. Truchetet e-mail:
[email protected] 25 years after the seminal work of Jean Morlet, the wavelet transform, multiresolution analysis, and other space frequency or space scale approaches are considered standard tools by researchers in image processing. Many applications that point out the interest of these techniques have been proposed. This paper proposes a review of the recent published work dealing with industrial applications of the wavelet and, more generally speaking, multiresolution analysis. More than 180 recent papers are presented. c 2007 Optical Society of America 1. INTRODUCTION The wavelet transform is already an old concept for signal and image processing specialists. It has now been twenty five years (1982) since Jean Morlet, a French engineer working on 1 Accepted for publication in Journal of Electronic Imaging (oct. 2007) To be published in 2008 seismological data for an oil company, proposed the concept of wavelet analysis to automat- ically reach the best trade-off between time and frequency resolution [58, 118]. Later, this proposition has been considered as a generalization of ideas promoted by Haar (1910) and Gabor (1946) [51], being themselves Fourier’s followers (1888). As any discovery in science, wavelets resulted from numerous contributions and are based on concepts that already ex- isted before Morlet’s work.