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📋 Week 8: Signal Denoising & Compression 📝 Outline Goals

Wavelet Shrinkage (Thresholding)

Hard vs. Soft Threshold

Universal (Donoho–Johnstone) Threshold

Advanced Denoising Algorithms

VisuShrink, SureShrink, BayesShrink

Wavelet‐Based Compression

Coefficient Quantization

Embedded Coding (SPIHT)

Zerotree Concept

Rate–Distortion Trade-offs

Exercises

  1. Goals By the end of this week you will:

Learn how to remove noise by zeroing or shrinking small wavelet coefficients.

Understand the choice of threshold and its impact on mean‐square error.

See how wavelet coefficients can be quantized and coded for compression.

Analyze the trade‐off between bit-rate and reconstruction quality.