Higher-order Riesz transforms and steerable wavelet frames

  • Authors:
  • Michael Unser;Dimitri Van De Ville

  • Affiliations:
  • Biomedical Imaging Group, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland;Biomedical Imaging Group, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • ICIP'09 Proceedings of the 16th IEEE international conference on Image processing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We introduce an Nth-order extension of the Riesz transform in d dimensions. We prove that this generalized transform has the following remarkable properties: shift-invariance, scale-invariance, innerproduct preservation, and steerability. The pleasing consequence is that the transform maps any primary wavelet frame (or basis) of L2(Rd) into another "steerable" wavelet frame, while preserving the frame bounds. The concept provides a rigorous functional counterpart to Simoncelli's steerable pyramid whose construction was entirely based on digital filter design. The proposed mechanism allows for the specification of wavelets with any order of steerability in any number of dimensions; it also yields a perfect reconstruction filter-bank algorithm. We illustrate the method using a Mexican-hatlike polyharmonic spline wavelet transform as our primary frame.