Frames adapted to a phase-space cover (Q485318)

In this article, the following problem is considered. ``Given a -- possibly irregular -- cover of the time-frequency plane \(\mathbb{R}^{2d}\), we wish to construct a frame for \(L^{2}(\mathbb{R}^{d})\) with atoms whose time-frequency concentration follows the shape of the cover members. This allows to vary the trade-off between time and frequency resolution along the time-frequency plane. The adapted frames are constructed by selecting, for each member of a given cover, a family of functions maximizing their concentration in the corresponding region of the time-frequency domain, or phase-space. These functions can be obtained as eigenfunctions of time-frequency localization operators, as we now describe.'' Applications to time-frequency, wavelet and Gabor analysis are presented.