小波变换（wavelet transform，WT）是一种新的变换分析方法，它继承和发展了短时傅立叶变换局部化的思想，同时又克服了窗口大小不随频率变化等缺点，能够提供一个随频率改变的“时间-频率”窗口，是进行信号时频分析和处理的理想工具。(a wavelet series is a representation of a square-integrable (real- or complex-valued) function by a certain orthonormal series generated by a wavelet. This article provides a formal, mathematical definition of an orthonormal wavelet and of the integral wavelet transform.)