Empirical wavelet frames

Abstract

Due to their adaptive nature, empirical wavelets had several successes in many fields from engineering, science, medical signal/image processing. Recently, a general theoretical framework has been developed in the one-dimensional case, showing the possibility to build empirical wavelets from any classic mother wavelets. Given extensive literature both in theory and applications of classic wavelet frames, it is legitimate to ask about the feasibility of building empirical wavelet frames. We address this question in this paper. We prove several results which provide conditions on the existence of empirical wavelet frames taking into account the above mentioned adaptability.