Exact Wavelets on the Ball

DOI10.1109/TSP.2012.2215030zbMATH Open1393.94137arXiv1205.0792MaRDI QIDQ4574178FDOQ4574178

Authors: Boris Leistedt, Jason D. McEwen 

Publication date: 18 July 2018

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We develop an exact wavelet transform on the three-dimensional ball (i.e. on the solid sphere), which we name the flaglet transform. For this purpose we first construct an exact transform on the radial half-line using damped Laguerre polynomials and develop a corresponding quadrature rule. Combined with the spherical harmonic transform, this approach leads to a sampling theorem on the ball and a novel three-dimensional decomposition which we call the Fourier-Laguerre transform. We relate this new transform to the well-known Fourier-Bessel decomposition and show that band-limitedness in the Fourier-Laguerre basis is a sufficient condition to compute the Fourier-Bessel decomposition exactly. We then construct the flaglet transform on the ball through a harmonic tiling, which is exact thanks to the exactness of the Fourier-Laguerre transform (from which the name flaglets is coined). The corresponding wavelet kernels are well localised in real and Fourier-Laguerre spaces and their angular aperture is invariant under radial translation. We introduce a multiresolution algorithm to perform the flaglet transform rapidly, while capturing all information at each wavelet scale in the minimal number of samples on the ball. Our implementation of these new tools achieves floating-point precision and is made publicly available. We perform numerical experiments demonstrating the speed and accuracy of these libraries and illustrate their capabilities on a simple denoising example.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.0792

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical methods for wavelets (65T60) Application of orthogonal and other special functions (94A11)

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