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DWT denotes discrete wavelet transforms, instances of continuous wavelet transforms that admit a discrete sampling.

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Why no Daubechies wavelet from Continuous Wavelet Transform?

thank you for considering this question. Do you know any reason why Daubechies wavelet can't be used for Continuous Wavelet Transfrom, but only for Discrete Wavelet Transform ? Matlab toolbox and ...
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Avoiding latency distortion at high denoise levels with DWT

I am denoising biological signals using the DWT, and for UI reasons would prefer the smoother waveform afforded by denoise level 5. However, higher denoise levels seem to distort the latency of ...
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Integrating over the translation on a DWT

I'm really a begginer at Wavelet transform and I'm starting to use the pywt module. I have some difficulties understanding the link between the following integral and the coefficients of the DWT: $$ W(...
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Output of pywt.dwt

I am using 'dwt' function and I can't understand what the values in the approximation and detail lists actually represent. I have read that in each level the function uses high pass filters and low ...
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How to get the high frequency portions of an audio using DWT?

I basically want to use a digital wavelet transform to get the high frequencies of an audio signal and get the time information or really anything that can make me understand where they happen so I ...
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How can the detail coefficients in discrete wavelet transform (DWT) be downsampled?

This question is asked with reference to this paragraph For the high-pass filter, the frequency content lies in the range $\frac{F_s}{4} \rightarrow \frac{F_s}{2}$. There is no content in the range $...
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1D Interpolating subdivision for wavelet lifting schemes

I am looking into wavelet lifting methods first introduced by Swelden, and explained in this paper: Build your own wavelets at home. In this paper (in chapter 2 specifically), they discuss ...
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Polyphase Filter Implementation for oversampled (undecimated) wavelet lifting scheme?

I am learning about lifting schemes, and for my project, it seems as though it would be beneficial to use an undecimated wavelet transform (UWT). I have found a paper by Lee, Lee, and Yoo (New lifting ...
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Standard audio format using DWT for compression

Is there any standard audio format that employs discrete wavelet transform to compress signals?
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What is the importance of the translational invariance of the CWT?

Translational invariance is a property that the continuous wavelet transform (CWT) has but the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) does not have. It says that a shift of the signal, i.e. $x(t)\rightarrow ...
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Manual DWT vs Python pywt

I am trying to understand Discrete Wavelet Transform. I am trying to do it manually to understand all the steps well. Taking as an example the wavelet function 'sym2' knowing that its low decompostion ...
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Detecting and removing interferences from a signal

I am using MATLAB in order to denoise and remove interferences on a signal. I used wdenoise to denoise my signal which works by setting a threshold (for example ...
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I have a signal $$Y=f(t),$$ which I want to show the anomalies, using the wavelets transform. I don't know if I use the CWT or the DWT and which mother wavelet could I use?
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Coefficient meaning in DWT

I understand that approximate and detail coefficient represent the different signal bands. But what do the values mean and how are they used?
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How well can discrete wavelet packet transform reduce noises that are similar to the input signal in the same frequency band?

If I had 50Hz noise coming from power line, and signals in the same frequency range (EEG for example 0.1Hz to 100Hz). If my sampling frequency is 30kHz but I downsample my signal to 937kHz and use the ...
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Best way to measure effectiveness of discrete wavelet denoising?

I am using matlab wavelet toolbox to denoise physiological signals, I am plotting the denoised signal on top of the original noisy signal and making sure spikes were not removed as a measure of ...
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Some questions about the intuition of the DWT

Assuming a DWT of a signal of length 8 with Haar filter taps. At the lowest level, I end up with a3 and d3 both of length 1, d2 of length 2 and d1 of length 4 which is the same number of coefficients ...
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DWT on short signals

I have signals with a very short rate of ~100e-6 seconds, sampled at 10MHz,so about 1k samples. I am wondering, is there a practical limit to the usefulness of time-frequency methods concerning a ...
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Lifting scheme versus filter banks

I am having some trouble understanding the intuitive connection between the two. I worked through all the theory and learned that Sweldens showed how to derive lifting steps when having admissible ...
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wavelet packet transform and lifting scheme?

so the lifting scheme is basically an alternative to performing the discrete wavelet transform with several advantages. But here are three questions which I did not find an answer to: is it ...
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Time location of the DWT detail coefficients using MATLAB

When performing the Discrete Wavelet Transform in MATLAB using the command DWT or WAVEDEC, what it the exact time or pseudo-time location of the DWT coefficients? At each level the time series is ...
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What are the differences between the DWT and the MODWT?

What are the differences between the DWT (Discrete Wavelet Transform), which is the most classical algorithm and the Maximum Overlap Discrete Wavelet Trasnform (MODWT)? Both these algorithm are ...
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Discrete Wavelet Transform output: coefficients or FIR-filtered signals?

I have a theoretical question about the calculation of the Discrete Wavelet Transform, using MATLAB specifically. According to this video-tutorial on the MATLAB lagorithm: https://it.mathworks.com/...
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DWT vs. FFT for BPM detection

A BPM detection with FFT has been already highlighted on this site. Would DWT do the job as well? I've tried a Python script using DWT but it seems that the output is wrong, that is for the first 10 ...
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At what stage do we compute the approximations and details while performing a DWT?

$$ \int_{-\infty}^{+\infty}{f(t)\psi_{j,k}^\ast(t)dt}\ \textrm{with}\ \psi_{j,k}(t)\ =\ a_0^{-j/2}\psi(a_0^{-j}t\ -\ b_0k) $$ If this is the expression for the wavelet transform, how does this lead to ...
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can I combine 2 raster with wavelet transform in R? [closed]

I Have same problem, i will combine 2 raster data with wavelet fusion r1<-brick("mask data/r1_mask_black.tif") r2<-brick("mask data/r2_mask_black.tif")
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discrete wavelet transform matrix for vectorized image

Yesterday I asked about how to extract 2D DFT matrix for a vectorized image. Today my question is how can I extract 2D DWT matrix for a vectorized image. Fourier transform have this property that ...
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Difference between "Discrete Wavelet Transform" and "Discrete Wavelet Decomposition"

I have a rough overview on Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT). However, I am confused about Discrete Wavelet Decomposition and did not find a good reference yet which explains this well. What is it ...
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Is there an equivalent of Parseval's theorem for wavelets?

Parseval's theorem can be interpreted as: ... the total energy of a signal can be calculated by summing power-per-sample across time or spectral power across frequency. For the case of a signal $x(...
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Why is the high-pass filter result in a discrete wavelet transform (DWT) downsampled?

From Wikipedia's description of the Discrete Wavelet Transform, a signal yields a set of: approximation coefficients (low-pass: by averaging + downsampling) detail coefficients (high-pass: convolving ...
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Aliasing from downsampling and Nyquist

In a book Conceptual Wavelets in Digital Signal Processing by Lee Fugal 2009 on page 246 the author talks about aliasing present in DWT subbands due to downsampling by 2 and states: Recall from DSP ...
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Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) Filter Bank

I have some stumbling block in my thesis writing. Do we use the same filter pair while implementing DWT filter bank with downsampling of the filter output, or filters do change also from level to ...
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High frequencies disappear when applying discrete wavelet transform

Trying to decompose and reconstruct a signal using a to some extent self-made implementation of DWT for some reason fails. The result looks highpass filtered and/or shifted. I wanted to write the code ...
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What are the constraints in design of discrete orthogonal wavelets?

Can anyone point me to literature that explains a quote from here : Why is a wavelet transform implemented as a filter bank? So not all wavelets can be implemeted perfectly (invertible) with ...
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Looking for a analytical formula to compute the central frequency of a signal analyzed by a discrete wavelet at a given scale

I am reading this paper by Han et al. (2014). In this article, the authors extract detailed information from geomagnetic data sampled at 1Hz using a daubechies 5 (db5) wavelet: they reconstruct the ...
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Discrete Wavelet Transform: Specifics of Filter Bank

So I have been given to understand that the discrete wavelet transform is able to provide both time and frequency resolution in ways that classic Fourier and even short time Fourier cannot. By ...
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Image processing based on wavelet transform in python [closed]

I take the dwt2 for an image and saved it's coefficients (LL,Lh, hl,hh) using pywt.dwt2 (image,'haar'),in my project I have to change them to uint8 but when I change their types and reconstruct the ...
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Wavelet transform of a spatial convolution

Does anyone know if there exist a kind of convolution theorem for the discrete wavelet transform (decimated or undecimated)? In other words can I find a simple form of $W\left[ \int f(t) g(x-t) \, ...
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Extracting feature from audio track using DWT

Our teacher gave us an assignment: Write a program to transform an audio track to time - frequency domain, and create a vector include at least 4 features extracted from transformed output signal. I ...
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Other time-frequency-plane tiling than STFT, DWT, ConstantQ-Transform: multiresolution STFT?

It is known that a) the STFT gives a rectangular tiling of the time-frequency plane b) the Wavelet transform gives a non-linear tiling (better frequency resolution for low-frequencies, and better ...
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Dimensional reduction from DWT with threshold

I have been trying to find out how can the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) be possible to reduce dimension of data. Then I saw the question which is seemingly related to my work: Feature extraction/...
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What are the best suitable type of image moments (Hu, Zernike etc.) that can be applied on an Image after DCT/DWT?

I want to perform a block by block comparison by using overlapping blocks and their respective image moments. Can anybody suggest for type of image moment suited for blocks of DCT/DWT of that image. ...
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Which of DFT, DCT and DWT transforms is more robust to noise and geometric transformations in image processing [closed]

I am currently studying about image watermarking and I have been testing these 3 domains to embed the watermark at. My question is, how do these domains hold up to noise addition or geometric ...
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Programming the IDWT for image processing

I want to program the 2D inverse discrete wavelet transform (only 1 level) in the case of image processing. In the matlab website there's this diagram: now, I want to program the IDWT with haar ...
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Real-time wavelet decomposition and reconstruction for ECG feature extraction

I need to locate R-peaks in an ECG signal. I'm using wavelets to extract QRS complexes: First, I decompose the signal using a maximal overlap discrete wavelet transform with the Symlet 4 wavelet. This ...
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why double desity DWT use two HPF?

The double-density DWT is an improvement upon the critically sampled DWT with important additional properties: It employs one scaling function and two distinct wavelets, which are designed to be ...
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DWT versus band-pass filter

Which technique gives better result in extracting a band from a signal, let's say the alpha band (8-13 Hz): using a band-pass-filter or a DWT (Discrete Wavelet Transformation)? P.S.: I am working in ...
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Implementing the DWT

I have been given the task to implement the 5/3 CDF transform for image compression. Given that the impulse response for the low and high pass are: $h_1 = [-0.5, 1 ,-0.5]$ (High Pass) $h_2 = [-0....
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Can anyone help me with good reference books for Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT)

I am working on EEG signal. To analyze the signal I need to use DWT. Therefore I need good reference books. If the book contains MATLAB implementation of DWT that will be more helpful.
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Does each pixel of the original image has a corresponding coefficient for every scale and every direction calculated by the DWT?

I want to take a pixel and find its coefficients calculated by the discrete wavelet transform for every scale and every direction. But as the DWT subsamples images, I don't see how to do that. Do I ...
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