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By Vicent J. Martinez, Enn Saar, Enrique Martinez Gonzales, Maria Jesus Pons-Borderia

The volume of cosmological information has dramatically elevated long ago a long time as a result of an remarkable improvement of telescopes, detectors and satellites. successfully dealing with and analysing new information of the order of terabytes in step with day calls for not just desktop strength to be processed but in addition the improvement of refined algorithms and pipelines.Aiming at scholars and researchers the lecture notes during this quantity clarify in pedagogical demeanour the simplest ideas used to extract info from cosmological facts, in addition to trustworthy equipment that are meant to support us enhance our view of the universe.

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For 2N data points the transformation matrix is ⎡ ⎤ h1 h2 h3 h4 0 0 0 . . 0 0 0 ⎢ g1 g2 g3 g4 0 0 0 . . 0 0 0 ⎥ ⎢ ⎥ ⎢ 0 0 h1 h2 h3 h4 0 . . 0 0 0 ⎥ ⎢ ⎥ ⎥ W (2N ) = ⎢ ⎢ 0 0 g1 g2 g3 g4 0 . . 0 0 0 ⎥ . ⎢ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ⎥ ⎢ ⎥ ⎣h3 h4 0 0 0 0 0 . . 0 h1 h2 ⎦ g3 g4 0 0 0 0 0 . . 0 g1 g2 (94) (95) There are as many columns and rows as there are data points. Note the wraparound for the last pair of data points. This is a generally undesirable feature unless the data is periodic.

The question of which predictor to use is more complex. 8 Transforms in Two Dimensions: Image Data So far it has been assumed that the data is a one-dimensional set of values (like a time series or the value of a function on an axis). Wavelet transforms of twodimensional data are straightforward: just transform all the rows or columns of the data as if they were independent one-dimensional data sets. However, to make the transformation process useful is not quite as straightforward and there are several possible approaches.

0 0⎦ ⎢ S[n + 1] ⎥ 8 2 4 2 8 ⎥ ⎢ ⎣D[n + 1]⎦ ........................... ⎡ ⎤ = ⎤ 31 ⎡ (104) Again, the alignment is important: the 1 in the first row of the matrix must line up with the S[n] of the data. In that way the 34 of the following row multiplies the D[n]. Notice that, because of the interleaving of the smooth and detail values, this matrix organization is not computationally efficient if the transform is to be done to several levels. The rows and columns of the transform matrices have to be re-organized to handle that.

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