Butterworth wavelet transforms derived from discrete interpolatory splines: recursive implementation (Q5958661)

The authors present a new family of biorthogonal wavelet transforms and the related library of biorthogonal symmetric waveforms. For the construction, they use interpolatory discrete splines, which enabled them to design a library of perfect reconstruction filter banks. These filter banks are related to Butterworth filters. The construction is performed in a ``lifting'' manner. The difference from the conventional lifting scheme is that the transforms of a signal are performed via recursive filtering with the use of IIR filters. These filters have the linear phase property, and the basic waveforms are symmetric. The filters allow for fast cascade or parallel implementation. They present explicit formulas for the construction of wavelets with an arbitrary number of vanishing moments. In addition, these filters yield perfect frequency resolution. The proposed scheme is based on interpolation and, as such, it involves only samples of signals. Furthermore, it does not require any use of quadrature formulas.