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, the chirplet transform is an inner product of an input signal with a family of analysis primitives called chirplets.
Much as in the wavelet transform, the chirplets are usually generated from (or can be expressed as being from) a single mother chirplet (analogous to the so-called mother wavelet of wavelet theory).
The term chirplet transform was coined by Steve Mann

Steve Mann

Steven Mann , is a tenured professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto.-Education:...

, as the title of the first published paper on chirplets.