Roger L. Claypoole, Jr. and Richard G. Baraniuk.
Flexible wavelet transforms using lifting.
Proceedings of the 68th SEG Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 1998.

Abstract: We introduce and discuss biorthogonal wavelet transforms
using the lifting construction. The lifting construction exploits
a spatial-domain, prediction-error interpretation of the wavelet
transform and provides a powerful framework for designing customized
transforms. We discuss the application of lifting to adaptive and non-linear
transforms, transforms of non-uniformly sampled data, and related issues.