Evaluate UDCT vs. FDCT and other possible options

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The Uniform Discrete Curvelet Transform (UDCT) is a possible alternative to the Fast Discrete Curvelet Transform (FDCT). There is also a review paper from 2010 on curvelets.

The UDCT is appealing because there is a partial open-source implementation written in Julia on GitHub. We could easily port this to Java, MATLAB, and/or other useful platforms. Whereas the flagship FDCT implementation, CurveLab, is unfortunately not open source.

Major goals of this evaluation are:

• Possible improvements in both performance and results/correctness.
• Deploy curvelet-based analysis routines in ImageJ and other OSS tools which give scientists improved control over their in toto workflow.