TY - JOUR
T1 - Contourlets
AU - Do, Minh N
AU - Vetterli, M.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - This chapter focuses on the development of a new "true" two-dimensional representation for images that can capture the intrinsic geometrical structure of pictorial information. Our emphasis is on the discrete framework that can lead to algorithmic implementations. We propose a double filter bank structure, named the only pyramidal directional filter bank, by combining the Laplacian pyramid with a directional filter bank. The result is called the only contourlet transform, which provides a flexible multiresolution, local and directional expansion for images. The contourlet transform can be designed to satisfy the anisotropy scaling relation for curves, and thus offers a fast and structured curvelet-like decomposition sampled signals. As a result, the proposed transform provides a sparse representation for two-dimensional piecewise smooth signals that resemble images. The link between the developed filter banks and the continuous-space constructions is set up precisely in a newly defined directional multiresolution analysis. Finally, we show some numerical experiments demonstrating the potential of the new transform in several image processing tasks.
AB - This chapter focuses on the development of a new "true" two-dimensional representation for images that can capture the intrinsic geometrical structure of pictorial information. Our emphasis is on the discrete framework that can lead to algorithmic implementations. We propose a double filter bank structure, named the only pyramidal directional filter bank, by combining the Laplacian pyramid with a directional filter bank. The result is called the only contourlet transform, which provides a flexible multiresolution, local and directional expansion for images. The contourlet transform can be designed to satisfy the anisotropy scaling relation for curves, and thus offers a fast and structured curvelet-like decomposition sampled signals. As a result, the proposed transform provides a sparse representation for two-dimensional piecewise smooth signals that resemble images. The link between the developed filter banks and the continuous-space constructions is set up precisely in a newly defined directional multiresolution analysis. Finally, we show some numerical experiments demonstrating the potential of the new transform in several image processing tasks.
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U2 - 10.1016/S1570-579X(03)80032-0
DO - 10.1016/S1570-579X(03)80032-0
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:71649108949
SN - 1570-579X
VL - 10
SP - 83
EP - 105
JO - Studies in Computational Mathematics
JF - Studies in Computational Mathematics
IS - C
ER -