Abstract. Dual Gramian analysis is one of the fundamental tools developed in a series of papers [37, 40, 38, 39, 42] for studying frames. Using dual Gramian analysis, the frame operator can be represented as a family of matrices composed of the Fourier transforms of the generators of (generalized) shiftinvariant systems, which allows us to characterize most properties of frames and tight frames...

We investigate the relevance of admissibility criteria based on Plancherel measure for the characterization of tight Weyl-Heisenberg frames with integer oversampling. For this purpose we observe that functions giving rise to such Weyl-Heisenberg frames are admissible with regard to the action of a suitably defined type-I discrete group G. This allows to relate the construction of Weyl-Heisenber...

Tight frames can be characterized as those frames which possess optimal numerical stability properties. In this paper, we consider the question of modifying a general frame to generate a tight frame by rescaling its frame vectors; a process which can also be regarded as perfect preconditioning of a frame by a diagonal operator. A frame is called scalable, if such a diagonal operator exists. We ...

In this paper we shall characterize Sobolev spaces of an arbitrary order of smoothness using nonstationary tight wavelet frames for L2(R). In particular, we show that a Sobolev space of an arbitrary fixed order of smoothness can be characterized in terms of the weighted `2-norm of the analysis wavelet coefficient sequences using a fixed compactly supported nonstationary tight wavelet frame in L...

Sparsity based regularization methods for image restoration assume that the underlying image has a good sparse approximation under a certain system. Such a system can be a basis, a frame, or a general over-complete dictionary. One widely used class of such systems in image restoration are wavelet tight frames. There have been enduring efforts on seeking wavelet tight frames under which a certai...

We provide a new method for constructing equiangular tight frames (ETFs). This method is valid in both the real and complex settings, and shows that many of the few previously-known examples of ETFs are but the first representatives of infinite families of such frames. The construction is extremely simple: a tensor-like combination of a Steiner system and a regular simplex. It provides great fr...

This paper shows what are called Welch bound equality (WBE) sequences by the signal processing community are precisely the isometric/equal norm/normalized/uniform tight frames which are currently being investigated for a number of applications, and in the real case are the spherical 2–designs of combinatorics. Recent applications include wavelet expansions, Grassmannian frames, frames robust to...