Continuous shearlet tight frames

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Abstract: Based on the shearlet transform we present a general construction of continuous tight frames for L2(mathbbR2) from any sufficiently smooth function with anisotropic moments. This includes for example compactly supported systems, piecewise polynomial systems, or both. From our earlier results it follows that these systems enjoy the same desirable approximation properties for directional data as the previous bandlimited and very specific constructions due to Kutyniok and Labate. We also show that the representation formulas we derive are in a sense optimal for the shearlet transform.


The author constructs a system of bivariate functions with the following desirable properties: {\parindent=6,5mm \begin{itemize}\item[(a)] Directionality. The geometry of the set of singularities of a tempered distribution \(f\) can be accurately described in terms of the interaction between \(f\) and the elements of the system. \item[(b)] Tightness. The system forms a tight frame of \(L^2(\mathbb R^2)\). \item[(c)] Locality. The representation is local, that is, the representation can also be interpreted as a representation with respect to a non-tight frame and its dual frame such that both of these frames only consist of compactly supported functions. \end{itemize}} The importance of these criteria is obvious: First, it is widely agreed that a large part of the information that a function carries lies in its singularities (for instance, the edges in an image). Secondly, any transform should possess a stable analysis and reconstruction operation. This is encoded in the tight frame property. And finally, in many cases it is easier to work with a local transform than with a non-local one. This is especially true when working with functions over bounded domains like in image processing or numerical PDE theory.











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