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PrefaceThis volume concludes our three-volume series titled Spline and spline wavelet methods with applications to signal and image processing.Volume I [12] systematically describes the design and applications of periodic polynomial and discrete splines and wavelets, wavelet packets and wavelet frames that originate from these splines. As a working tool in [12], the so-called Spline Harmonic Analysis (SHA) [29,30] is used, which combines approximation abilities of splines with the computational strength of the fast Fourier transform (FFT). It introduces the harmonic analysis methodologies into periodic spline spaces. SHA enables us to efficiently construct and manipulate different types of splines, wavelets, wavelet packets, and wavelet frames. SHA has paved the way for periodic splines to contribute to solutions for applied signal/image processing problems [6-9, 11, 30, 31]. A few applications are presented in [12], such as Upsampling of discrete-time signals/images: It is done using binary and ternary spline subdivision. Signals' deconvolution by regularized matching pursuit (RMP): The RMP method that uses orthonormal spline wavelet packet dictionaries, restores signals blurred by convolution with a bandlimited kernel and corrupted by strong noise. Block-based deconvolution and inversion of the heat equation: When a signal/image is restored from blurred sampled data affected by noise, relative contributions of a coherent signal and noise are di...