The Wavelets conference series was started by Andrew Laine in 1993. Under the leadership of Laine, Michael Unser, and Akram Aldroubi, it grew to be the leading venue for the dissemination of research on wavelets and their applications. Manos Papadakis replaced Akram Aldroubi as a conference chair in 2005, and the remainder of the leadership team turned over in 2007, with the addition of Dimitri Van De Ville and Vivek Goyal. Starting with the 2017 conference, Yue Lu has replaced Goyal.

The current chairs plan to intermittently add to this page, for example with descriptions of key papers and lectures and reminiscences of participants. Please feel free to send your suggestions.

Proceedings of all the previous conferences are available from SPIE. The SPIE Volume links below will take you to pages with complete tables of contents, access to abstracts, and purchasing information.

Mathematical Imaging: Wavelet Applications in Signal and Image Processing
July 15-16, 1993
San Diego, CA
SPIE Volume 2034, A. F. Laine, Ed.

Wavelet Applications in Signal and Image Processing II
July 27-29, 1994
San Diego, CA
SPIE Volume 2303, A. F. Laine and M. A. Unser, Eds.

Wavelet Applications in Signal and Image Processing III
July 12-14, 1995
San Diego, CA
SPIE Volume 2569, A. F. Laine and M. A. Unser, Eds.

Wavelet Applications in Signal and Image Processing IV
August 6-9, 1996
Denver, CO
SPIE Volume 2825, M. A. Unser, A. Aldroubi, and A. F. Laine, Eds.

Wavelet Applications in Signal and Image Processing V
July 30-August 1, 1997
San Diego, CA
SPIE Volume 3169, A. Aldroubi, A. F. Laine, and M. A. Unser, Eds.

Wavelet Applications in Signal and Image Processing VI
July 22-23, 1998
San Diego, CA
SPIE Volume 3458

Wavelet Applications in Signal and Image Processing VII
July 19-23, 1999
Denver, CO
SPIE Volume 3813, M. A. Unser, A. Aldroubi, and A. F. Laine, Eds.

Wavelet Applications in Signal and Image Processing VIII
July 31-August 4, 2000
San Diego, CA
SPIE Volume 4119, A. Aldroubi, A. F. Laine, and M. A. Unser, Eds.

Wavelets: Applications in Signal and Image Processing IX
July 30-August 1, 2001
San Diego, CA
SPIE Volume 4478, A. F. Laine, M. A. Unser, and A. Aldroubi, Eds.

Wavelets: Applications in Signal and Image Processing X
August 4-8, 2003
San Diego, CA
SPIE Volume 5207, M. A. Unser, A. Aldroubi, and A. F. Laine, Eds.

Wavelets XI
July 31-August 3, 2005
San Diego, CA
SPIE Volume 5914, M. Papadakis, A. F. Laine, and M. A. Unser, Eds.

Wavelets XII
August 26-29, 2007
San Diego, CA
SPIE Volume 6701, D. Van De Ville, V. K. Goyal, and M. Papadakis, Eds.
Proceedings front matter

Wavelets XIII
August 2-4, 2009
San Diego, CA
SPIE Volume 7446, V. K. Goyal, M. Papadakis, and D. Van De Ville, Eds.
Proceedings front matter

Wavelets and Sparsity XIV
August 21-24, 2011
San Diego, CA
SPIE Volume 8138, M. Papadakis, D. Van De Ville, and V. K. Goyal, Eds.
Proceedings front matter

Wavelets and Sparsity XV
August 26-29, 2013
San Diego, CA
SPIE Volume 8858, D. Van De Ville, V. K. Goyal, and M. Papadakis, Eds.
Proceedings front matter

Wavelets and Sparsity XVI
August 10-12, 2015
San Diego, CA
SPIE Volume 9597, M. Papadakis, D. Van De Ville, and V. K. Goyal, Eds.
Proceedings front matter

Wavelets and Sparsity XVII
August 6-8, 2017
San Diego, CA
SPIE Volume 10394, Y. M. Lu, D. Van De Ville, and M. Papadakis, Eds.
Proceedings front matter

Wavelets and Sparsity XVIII
August 13-15, 2019
San Diego, CA
SPIE Volume 11138, D. Van De Ville, M. Papadakis, and Y. M. Lu, Eds.
Proceedings front matter