We present an application of the program of groupoidification leading up to a sketch of a categorification of the Hecke algebroid—the category of permutation representations of a finite group. As an immediate consequence, we obtain a categorification of the Hecke algebra. We suggest an explicit connection to new higher isomorphisms arising from incidence geometries, which are solutions of the Z...

We discuss some of the origins and applications of the notion of higher dimensional algebra, with the hope that this will encourage new insights into the development of the mathematics of complex hierarchical systems.

In this paper, we present a new image denoising method for removing Gaussian noise from corrupted image by using shearlet transform and nonlinear diffusion. The image is decomposed by the shearlet transform to obtain the shearlet coefficients in each subband; then a diffusion scheme based on statistical property of shearlet coefficients is used to shrink noisy shearlet coefficients. The test sh...

In this paper, we first develop a digital shearlet theory which is rationally designed in the sense that it is the digitalization of the existing shearlet theory for continuum data. This shows that shearlet theory indeed provides a unified treatment for the continuum and digital realm. Secondly, we discuss our implementation of the associated digital shearlet transform. This software package ca...

This paper presents a new filtering approach for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) interferometric phase noise reduction in the shearlet domain, depending on the coherent statistical characteristics. Shearlets provide a multidirectional and multiscale decomposition that have advantages over wavelet filtering methods when dealing with noisy phase fringes. Phase noise in SAR interferograms is direct...

A general notion of operad is given, which includes: (1) the operads that arose in algebraic topology in the 1970’s to characterise loop spaces. (2) the higher operads of Michael Batanin [Bat98]. (3) braided and symmetric analogues of Batanin’s operads which are likely to be important in the study of weakly symmetric higher dimensional monoidal categories. The framework of this paper, links tog...

Shearlet as a new multidirectional and multiscale transform is optimally efficient in representing images containing edges. In this paper, a total variation based multivariate shearlet adaptive shrinkage is proposed for discontinuity-preserving image denoising. The multivariate adaptive threshold is employed to reduce the noise. Projected total variation diffusion is used to suppress the pseudo...