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Example Wavelets ∗
Kileen Cheng
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Abstract
Many considerations go into the design of a wavelet system including properties such as orthogonality,
compact support, symmetry, and smoothness. Here we will examine several popularly-used wavelet
1 Design Considerations:
There are several design properties for the construction of a wavelet basis that one would want to be fullled.
1. symmetry: If the wavelets are not symmetric, then the wavelet transform of the mirror of an image
is not the mirror of the wavelet transform.
2. smoothness: This property is determined by the number of vanishing moments. Recall that the primal
vanishing moments determine the smoothness of the reconstruction. The dual vanishing moments
determine the convergence rate of the multiresolution projections and are necessary for detecting
singularities.
3. orthogonality: This property can be too restrictive at times. Thus the need for biorthgonal wavelet
systems.
4. compact support: This property is a function of the lter length.
2 Haar Wavelet
The Haar wavelet is the most fundamental of the wavelet systems and is also known as the length-2
Daubechies lter (See Figure 1).
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3 Sinc Wavelet
The Sinc wavelet is the second fundamental of the wavelet systems (see Figure 2). Recall that the Fourier
transform of the sinc is the brick-wall lter (or ideal low-pass lter).
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4 Daubechies Wavelet
The Daubechies coecients for the scaling and wavelet lters are unique in that they have a high degree of
smoothness. All N2 − 1 degrees of freedom are used to maximize the number of vanishing moments:
N
: H i (π) = 0 (6)
∀i, i ∈ 0, . . . , −1
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