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Splines and Wavelets on Geophysically Relevant Manifolds
Analysis on the unit sphere found many applications in
seismology, weather prediction, astrophysics, signal analysis, crystallography,
computer vision, computerized tomography, neuroscience, and statistics.
In the last two decades, the importance of these and other applications
triggered the development of various tools such as splines and wavelet bases
suitable for the unit spheres , and the
rotation group . Present paper is a summary of some of results of the
author and his collaborators on generalized (average) variational splines and
localized frames (wavelets) on compact Riemannian manifolds. The results are
illustrated by applications to Radon-type transforms on and
.Comment: The final publication is available at http://www.springerlink.co
Localisation of directional scale-discretised wavelets on the sphere
Scale-discretised wavelets yield a directional wavelet framework on the
sphere where a signal can be probed not only in scale and position but also in
orientation. Furthermore, a signal can be synthesised from its wavelet
coefficients exactly, in theory and practice (to machine precision).
Scale-discretised wavelets are closely related to spherical needlets (both were
developed independently at about the same time) but relax the axisymmetric
property of needlets so that directional signal content can be probed. Needlets
have been shown to satisfy important quasi-exponential localisation and
asymptotic uncorrelation properties. We show that these properties also hold
for directional scale-discretised wavelets on the sphere and derive similar
localisation and uncorrelation bounds in both the scalar and spin settings.
Scale-discretised wavelets can thus be considered as directional needlets.Comment: 28 pages, 8 figures, minor changes to match version accepted for
publication by ACH
Relationships among Interpolation Bases of Wavelet Spaces and Approximation Spaces
A multiresolution analysis is a nested chain of related approximation
spaces.This nesting in turn implies relationships among interpolation bases in
the approximation spaces and their derived wavelet spaces. Using these
relationships, a necessary and sufficient condition is given for existence of
interpolation wavelets, via analysis of the corresponding scaling functions. It
is also shown that any interpolation function for an approximation space plays
the role of a special type of scaling function (an interpolation scaling
function) when the corresponding family of approximation spaces forms a
multiresolution analysis. Based on these interpolation scaling functions, a new
algorithm is proposed for constructing corresponding interpolation wavelets
(when they exist in a multiresolution analysis). In simulations, our theorems
are tested for several typical wavelet spaces, demonstrating our theorems for
existence of interpolation wavelets and for constructing them in a general
multiresolution analysis
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