An orthogonal family of quincunx wavelets with continuously adjustable order

IEEE Trans Image Process. 2005 Apr;14(4):499-510. doi: 10.1109/tip.2005.843754.

Abstract

We present a new family of two-dimensional and three-dimensional orthogonal wavelets which uses quincunx sampling. The orthogonal refinement filters have a simple analytical expression in the Fourier domain as a function of the order lamda, which may be noninteger. We can also prove that they yield wavelet bases of L2(R2) for any lambda > 0. The wavelets are fractional in the sense that the approximation error at a given scale a decays like O(a(lamda)); they also essentially behave like fractional derivative operators. To make our construction practical, we propose a fast Fourier transform-based implementation that turns out to be surprisingly fast. In fact, our method is almost as efficient as the standard Mallat algorithm for separable wavelets.

Publication types

  • Evaluation Study

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms*
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Image Enhancement / methods*
  • Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / methods*
  • Information Storage and Retrieval / methods*
  • Numerical Analysis, Computer-Assisted
  • Pattern Recognition, Automated / methods
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted*