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Publications [#287148] of Ingrid Daubechies
Papers Published
- Daubechies, I; Sweldens, W, Factoring Wavelet Transforms into Lifting Steps,
Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications, vol. 4 no. 3
(January, 1998),
pp. x1-268 [doi]
(last updated on 2024/10/06)
Abstract: This article is essentially tutorial in nature. We show how any discrete wavelet transform or two band subband filtering with finite filters can be decomposed into a finite sequence of simple filtering steps, which we call lifting steps but that are also known as ladder structures. This decomposition corresponds to a factorization of the polyphase matrix of the wavelet or subband filters into elementary matrices. That such a factorization is possible is well-known to algebraists (and expressed by the formula SL(n; R[z, z-1]) = E(z; z-1])); it is also used in linear systems theory in the electrical engineering community. We present here a self-contained derivation, building the decomposition from basic principles such as the Euclidean algorithm, with a focus on applying it to wavelet filtering. This factorization provides an alternative for the lattice factorization, with the advantage that it can also be used in the biorthogonal, i.e., non-unitary case. Like the lattice factorization, the decomposition presented here asymptotically reduces the computational complexity of the transform by a factor two. It has other applications, such as the possibility of defining a wavelet-like transform that maps integers to integers.
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