A translation- and scale-invariant adaptive wavelet transform

H Xiong1, T Zhang, Y S Moon

  • 1State Key Laboratory for Image Processing and Intelligence Control, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China. hlxiong@cse.cuhk.edu.hk

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