“…In image processing based applications, image compression, image denoising and image watermarking are at the cutting edge, and as such, a brief description of these wavelet-based applications is given in the following subsections (Strang & Nguyen, 1996;Burrus et al, 1998;Stromme, 1999;Ebrahimi et al, 2002;Nibouche et al, 2000Nibouche et al, , 2001aNibouche et al, , 2001bNibouche et al, , 2001cNibouche et al, , 2001dNibouche et al, , 2002Nibouche et al, , 2003Smith, 2003;Do & Vetterli, 2003Hankerson et al, 2005;Nai-Xiang Yap-Peng, 2005;Xiong & Ramchandran, 2005;Chappelier & Guillemot, 2006;Cunha et al, 2006;Nai-Xiang et al, 2006;Raviraj & Sanavullah, 2007;Hernandez-Guzmane et al, 2008;Firoiu et al, 2009;Mallat, 2009;Brislawn, 2010;Oppenheim & Schafer, 2010;Ruikar & Doye, 2010& Chen & Qian, 2011.…”