PREFACE

           Firstly, I am deeply grateful to my adviser and manager of this project Assist. Prof. Banu Diri for her guidance and sharing her precious knowledge and ideas.

           Also, I wish to thank Res. Assist. Gokhan Bilgin who helped me to understand the wavelet transform details and zerotree structure.

           In addition, I sincerely acknowledge the advices of Suha Ardahan on quantization process in wavelet transformed images.