Wavelet Transform

Done By: S.Satya Phanindra Kumar Roll No:10881A04A1

Project Supervisor: K.Durga Prasad Associate Professor

CONTENTS
Introduction Fourier transform Limitations Short time fourier transform STFT Disadvantages Principles of Wavelet transform Examples of Wavelets HAAR Wavelets Applications Of Wavelets Conclusion References

Introduction to the world of transform

What are transforms :-

A mathematical operation that takes a function or sequence and maps into another form.
Examples : Laplace, Fourier, DTFT, DFT, FFT, z-transform

Transformation takes place in laplace transform.In this the transformation takes place in between time signal and frequency signal.

Fourier Transform
Mathematical Form :

X(f )

2 jft x ( t ) e dt 2 jft

x(t )
Notes :-

X ( f )e

df

A Fourier transform is based on the principle of fourier series. Fourier series decomposes periodic signals into oscillating functions namely sine and cosine. They are used for calculating the frequency spectrum of signals that change over a time.

LIMITATIONS
It only determines the frequency components of that signal. It shows what frequency exists in that signal. The time and frequency in formation cannot be seen at the same time. The time frequency representation of the signal is needed.

Short-time Fourier Transform

Also known as a STFT It is used to analyse only a small section of a signal at a time. This technique is called Windowing The Signal. .It has some disadvantges also.

STFT :: Disadvantages
Wider window Good frequency resolution , Poor time resolution. Narrower window Good time resolution , Poor frequency resolution. Heisenberg principle exists in this case which states that frequency is unknown at their respective time intervals.

Wavelet Transform
Overcomes the shortcoming of STFT by using variable length windows. Narrower window for high frequency thereby giving better time resolution and Wider window at low frequency thereby giving better frequency resolution. Heisenbergs Principle still holds.

Principles Of Wavelet Transforms

Splits up the signals into bunch of signals. Provides what frequency bands exist at what time intervals. It represents the same signal in correspondance to different frequency bands.

Examples of wavelets

HAAR WAVELET
It is the simplest possible wavelet. It is a sequence of rescaled square shaped functions which together form a wavelet.It was proposed in 1909 by Alfred Harr. Haar used these functions to give an example of an orthonormal system for the space of squareintegrable functions on the interval [0,1]. The technical disadvantage of this is it is not continuous,and therefore not differentiable.

 The haar function is given by:h(x)= 1 -1 0 0<x<1/2 1/2<x<1 otherwise

and hjk (x)=h(2j x-k)

and j is a non-negative integer and 0<k<2 j-1

It is done for some values of j and k and their respective graphs are shown.

Applications of wavelets
There are a lots of uses of wavelets .... The most prominent application of wavelets are Computer and Human Vision FBI Finger Print compression Image compression Denoising Noisy data Detecting self-similar behavior in noisy data Musical Notes synthesis Animations

o They are also used inComputer graphics and multifractal analysis.

o Their usage in geographic study is also very signoificant.

o Orthonormal wavelets are used in the study of atmospheric layer turbelance. o It is also used in another geo physical applications such as analysis of marine seismic data. o It is mainly used for finger print verification.

CONCLUSION
There are many applications of wavelets in various fields and their functionality is discussed.I also tried to compare wavelet transforms and fourier transforms by giving the drawbacks of the fourier transforms.Besides this,I also listed the advantages of wavelet transforms.From the discussion it is clear that wavelet transforms approach is better than existing methods and it takes less responsive time with high accuracy.Finally,we can say that wavelet transform is more reliable technique than that of any other techniques.

REFERENCES
[1]Paul S. Addison, The Illustrated Wavelet Transform Handbook, Institute of Physics, 2002. [2]Ali Akansu and Richard Haddad, Multiresolution Signal Decomposition: Transforms, Subbands, Wavelets, Academic Press, 1992. [3]B. Boashash, editor, "Time-Frequency Signal Analysis and Processing A Comprehensive Reference", Elsevier Science, Oxford, 2003. [4]Tony F. Chan and Jackie (Jianhong) Shen, Image Processing and Analysis Variational, PDE, Wavelet, and Stochastic Methods, Society of Applied Mathematics, 2005. [5]Ingrid Daubechies, Ten Lectures on Wavelets, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1992.

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