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New tight frames of curvelets and optimal representations of objects with piecewise C2 singularities
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This paper introduces new tight frames of curvelets to address the problem of finding optimally sparse representations of objects with discontinuities along piecewise C2 edges.Abstract:
This paper introduces new tight frames of curvelets to address the problem of finding optimally sparse representations of objects with discontinuities along piecewise C 2 edges. Conceptually, the curvelet transform is a multiscale pyramid with many directions and positions at each length scale, and needle-shaped elements at fine scales. These elements have many useful geometric multiscale features that set them apart from classical multiscale representations such as wavelets. For instance, curvelets obey a parabolic scaling relation which says that at scale 2 -j , each element has an envelope that is aligned along a ridge of length 2 -j/2 and width 2 -j . We prove that curvelets provide an essentially optimal representation of typical objects f that are C 2 except for discontinuities along piecewise C 2 curves. Such representations are nearly as sparse as if f were not singular and turn out to be far more sparse than the wavelet decomposition of the object. For instance, the n-term partial reconstruction f C n obtained by selecting the n largest terms in the curvelet series obeys ∥f - f C n ∥ 2 L2 ≤ C . n -2 . (log n) 3 , n → ∞. This rate of convergence holds uniformly over a class of functions that are C 2 except for discontinuities along piecewise C 2 curves and is essentially optimal. In comparison, the squared error of n-term wavelet approximations only converges as n -1 as n → ∞, which is considerably worse than the optimal behavior.read more
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