Fractional wavelets, derivatives, and Besov spaces

Michael A. Unser; Thierry Blu

doi:10.1117/12.507443

Abstract

We show that a multi-dimensional scaling function of order γ (possibly fractional) can always be represented as the convolution of a polyharmonic B-spline of order γ and a distribution with a bounded Fourier transform which has neither order nor smoothness. The presence of the B-spline convolution factor explains all key wavelet properties: order of approximation, reproduction of polynomials, vanishing moments, multi-scale differentiation property, and smoothness of the basis functions. The B-spline factorization also gives new insights on the stability of wavelet bases with respect to differentiation. Specifically, we show that there is a direct correspondence between the process of moving a B-spline factor from one side to another in a pair of biorthogonal scaling functions and the exchange of fractional integrals/derivatives on their wavelet counterparts. This result yields two "eigen-relations" for fractional differential operators that map biorthogonal wavelet bases into other stable wavelet bases. This formulation provides a better understanding as to why the Sobolev/Besov norm of a signal can be measured from the ℓ_p-norm of its rescaled wavelet coefficients. Indeed, the key condition for a wavelet basis to be an unconditional basis of the Besov space B_q^s(L_p(R^d)) is that the s-order derivative of the wavelet be in L_p.

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Michael A. Unser, Michael A. Unser, Thierry Blu, Thierry Blu, } "Fractional wavelets, derivatives, and Besov spaces", Proc. SPIE 5207, Wavelets: Applications in Signal and Image Processing X, (13 November 2003); doi: 10.1117/12.507443; https://doi.org/10.1117/12.507443

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