Biorthogonal wavelets or filterbanks are shown to be superior in coding gain performance than orthogonal ones for logarithmic subband decompositions (limited to iterative decomposition of the downsampled output of the analysis low-pass filter). As a consequence, for logarithmic decompositions, the optimal filter is not an ideal filter. This is shown for maximally regular biorthogonal and orthogonal filters, as well as filters designed to optimize the subband coding grain.

Date Published: 16 September 1994
PDF: 11 pages
Proc. SPIE 2308, Visual Communications and Image Processing '94, (16 September 1994); doi: 10.1117/12.185990

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 2308:
Visual Communications and Image Processing '94
Aggelos K. Katsaggelos, Editor(s)