Over the past years, various representation systems which sparsely approximate functions governed by anisotropic features such as edges in images have been proposed. We exemplarily mention the systems of contourlets, curvelets, and shearlets. Alongside the theoretical development of these systems, algorithmic realizations of the associated transforms were provided. However, one of the most comm...

In this paper, we first briefly review the directional properties of the Dual-Tree complex wavelet transform and we investigate how the directional selectivity of the transform can be increased (i.e., to obtain more than 6 orientations per scale). To this end, we describe a new augmented Lagrangian optimization algorithm to jointly perform the 2D spectral factorization of a set of 2D directiona...

Volumetric data acquisition and increasingly massive data storage have increased the need to develop better analysis tools for three-dimensional data sets. These volumetric data sets can provide information beyond that contained in standard two-dimensional images. Common strategies to deal with such data sets have been based on sequential use of two-dimensional analysis tools. In this work, we ...

Corresponding Author: Thayammal, S. Department of ECE Dhanalakshmi College of Engineering, Chennai-601 301, Tamil Nadu, India Email: [email protected] Abstract: The motivation of the proposed compression method is to reduce the bit rate for image transmission or memory requirement for image storage while maintaining image quality. The edges are one of the prominent features in an image a...

The analysis and detection of edges is a central problem in applied mathematics and image processing. A number of results in recent years have shown that directional multiscale methods such as continuous curvelet and shearlet transforms offer a powerful theoretical framework to capture the geometry of edge singularities, going far beyond the capabilities of the conventional wavelet transform. T...

In this paper, we study the relationships of the newly developed continuous shearlet transform with the coorbit space theory. It turns out that all the conditions that are needed to apply the coorbit space theory can indeed be satisfied for the shearlet group. Consequently, we establish new families of smoothness spaces, the shearlet coorbit spaces. Moreover, our approach yields Banach frames f...

In this paper, we focus on the study of shearlet transform which isdened by using the hyperbolic functions. As a result we check an admissibilitycondition such that implies the reconstruction formula. To this end, we will usethe concept of the classical shearlet, which indicates the position and directionof a singularity.

In this chapter, we illustrate the properties of the continuous shearlet transform with respect to its ability to describe the set of singularities of multidimensional functions and distributions. This is of particular interest since singularities and other irregular structures typically carry the most essential information in multidimensional phenomena. Consider, for example, the edges of natu...