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58 CHAPTER 3. IMAGE TRANSFORMS AND IMAGE FEATURES<br />

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Figure 3.3: Illustration of a filter bank for forward orthonormal wavelet transform.<br />

3.2.3 Discrete Algorithm<br />

Nowadays, computers are widely used in scientific computing, and most of a signal processing<br />

job is done by a variety of chips. All chips use digital signal processing (DSP)<br />

technology. It is not an exaggeration to say that a technique is crippled if it does not have<br />

a corresponding discrete algorithm. A nice feature of wavelets is that it has a fast discrete<br />

algorithm. For length N signal, the order of computational complexity is O(N). It can be<br />

formulated as an orthogonal transform. Each of the wavelets can have finite support.<br />

To explain how the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) works, we need to introduce some<br />

notation. Consider a function f ∈ L 2 . Let α j k denote a coefficient of a transform of f; αj k<br />

corresponds to the kth scaling function at the jth scale:<br />

∫<br />

α j k = f(x)φ(2 j x − k)dx.<br />

Let β j k<br />

also denote a coefficient of a transform of f corresponding to the k ′ th wavelet<br />

′<br />

function at the jth scale:<br />

∫<br />

β j k<br />

= f(x)ψ(2 j x − k ′ )dx.<br />

′<br />

Note that coefficients α j k and βj k<br />

are at the same scale. The following two relations can be<br />

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