“…Researchers, engineers and practitioners in various technical fields such as multimedia [25], telecommunications [26][27][28], medicine and biology [7,29,30], crack tracking and fracture detection [8,9,31,32,33], fluid mechanics [34], thermodynamics [35], astrophysics [36], finance [37,38], etc., are daily confronted with increasingly challenging technological problems at multiple scales of analysis, in terms of classification, segmentation, detection (of contours or parameters of interest), noise reduction or even elimination [39], compression for transmission or storage, synthesis or reconstruction, etc.…”