LULU operators and discrete pulse transform for multidimensional arrays

  • Authors:
  • Roumen Anguelov;Inger Fabris-Rotelli

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa;Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The LULU operators for sequences, that is Ln, Un and their compositions, are extended to multidimensional arrays in a way which preserves their essential properties, e.g., consistent separation, total variation and shape preservation. The power of the operators is demonstrated by deriving the discrete pulse transform (DPT), which is a hierarchical decomposition of the input array into pulses. Similar to its 1-D counterpart this transform satisfies a basic consistency property.