Construction of fractional spline wavelet bases

Michael A. Unser; Thierry Blu

doi:10.1117/12.366799

26 October 1999 Construction of fractional spline wavelet bases

Michael A. Unser, Thierry Blu

Proceedings Volume 3813, Wavelet Applications in Signal and Image Processing VII; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.366799
Event: SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1999, Denver, CO, United States

Abstract

We extend Schoenberg's B-splines to all fractional degrees (alpha) > -1/2. These splines are constructed using linear combinations of the integer shifts of the power functions x^(alpha ) (one-sided) or x^(alpha )_* (symmetric); in each case, they are (alpha) -Hoelder continuous for (alpha) > 0. They satisfy most of the properties of the traditional B-splines; in particular, the Biesz basis condition and the two-scale relation, which makes them suitable for the construction of new families of wavelet bases. What is especially interesting from a wavelet perspective is that the fractional B-splines have a fractional order of approximately ((alpha) + 1), while they reproduce the polynomials of degree [(alpha) ]. We show how they yield continuous-order generalization of the orthogonal Battle- Lemarie wavelets and of the semi-orthogonal B-spline wavelets. As (alpha) increases, these latter wavelets tend to be optimally localized in time and frequency in the sense specified by the uncertainty principle. The corresponding analysis wavelets also behave like fractional differentiators; they may therefore be used to whiten fractional Brownian motion processes.

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Michael A. Unser and Thierry Blu "Construction of fractional spline wavelet bases", Proc. SPIE 3813, Wavelet Applications in Signal and Image Processing VII, (26 October 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.366799

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