The geometry and the analytic properties of isotropic multiresolution analysis (Q2391090)

The authors study isotropic multiresolution analysis (IMRA). They provide a characterization of IMRA in terms of the Lax-Wiener Theorem, and a characterization of isotropic refinable functions in terms of the supports of their Fourier transforms. From their characterizations, the authors obtain immediately that an isotropic refinable function cannot be compactly supported in the space (or time) domain. They also investigate the approximation properties of IMRAs, and address the application of IMRA wavelets to 2D and 3D-texture segmentation.