filter.select: Provide wavelet filter coefficients.

In wavethresh: Wavelets Statistics and Transforms

Provide wavelet filter coefficients.

Description

This function stores the filter coefficients necessary for doing a discrete wavelet transform (and its inverse), including complex-valued compactly supported wavelets.

Usage

filter.select(filter.number, family="DaubLeAsymm", constant=1)

Arguments

filter.number	This selects the desired filter, an integer that takes a value dependent upon the family that you select. For the complex-valued wavelets in the Lina-Mayrand family, the filter number takes the form x.y where x is the number of vanishing moments (3, 4, or 5) and y is the solution number (1 for x = 3 or 4 vanishing moments; 1, 2, 3, or 4 for x = 5 vanishing moments). Note: this argument has a different meaning for Littlewood-Paley wavelets, see the note below in the Details section.
family	This selects the basic family that the wavelet comes from. The choices are DaubExPhase for Daubechies' extremal phase wavelets, DaubLeAsymm for Daubechies' “least-asymmetric” wavelets, Coiflets for Coiflets, Lawton for Lawton's complex-valued wavelets (equivalent to Lina-Mayrand 3.1 wavelets), LittlewoodPaley for a approximation to Littlewood-Paley wavelets, or LinaMayrand for the Lina-Mayrand family of complex-valued Daubechies' wavelets.
constant	This constant is applied as a multiplier to all the coefficients. It can be a vector, and so you can adapt the filter coefficients to be whatever you want. (This is feature of negative utility, or “there is less to this than meets the eye” as my old PhD supervisor would say [GPN]).

Details

This function contains at least three types of filter. Two types can be selected with family set to DaubExPhase, these wavelets are the Haar wavelet (selected by filter.number=1 within this family) and Daubechies “extremal phase” wavelets selected by filter.numbers ranging from 2 to 10). Setting family to DaubLeAsymm gives you Daubechies least asymmetric wavelets, but here the filter number ranges from 4 to 10. For Daubechies wavelets, filter.number corresponds to the N of that paper, the wavelets become more regular as the filter.number increases, but they are all of compact support.

With family equal to “Coiflets” the function supports filter numbers ranging from 1 to 5. Coiflets are wavelets where the scaling function also has vanishing moments.

With family equal to “LinaMayrand”, the function returns complex-valued Daubechies wavelets. For odd numbers of vanishing moments, there are symmetric complex-valued wavelets i this family, and for five or more vanishing moments there are multiple distinct complex-valued wavelets, distinguished by their (arbitrary) solution number. At present, Lina-Mayrand wavelets 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, and 5.4 are available in WaveThresh.

Setting family equal to “Lawton” chooses complex-valued wavelets. The only wavelet available is the one with “filter.number” equal to 3.

With family equal to “LittlewoodPaley” the Littlewood-Paley wavelet is used. The scaling function is also the same as (or at least proportional to, depending on your normalization) that of the Shannon scaling function, so its an approximation to the Shannon wavelet transform. The “filter.number” argument has a special meaning for the Littlewood-Paley wavelets: it does not represent vanishing moments here. Instead, it controls the number of filter taps in the quadrature mirror filter: typically longer values are better, up to the length of the series. Increasing it higher than the length of the series does not usually have much effect. Note: extreme caution should be taken with the Littlewood-Paley wavelet. This implementation is pure time-domain and as such can only be thought of as an approximation to a complete Shannon/LP implementation. For example, in actuality the wavelets are NOT finite impluse response filters like with Daubechies wavelets. This means that it is possible for an infinite number of Littlewood Paley wavelet coefficients to be nonzero. However, computers can not store an infinite number of coefficients and some will be lost. This is most noticeable with functions with discontinuities and other homogeneities but it can also happen with some smooth functions. A way to check how "bad" is can be is to transform your desired function followed immediately by the inverse transform and compare the original with the resultant sequence.

The function compare.filters can be used to compare two filters.

Value

Alist is returned with four components describing the filter:

H	A vector containing the filter coefficients.
G	A vector containing filter coefficients (if Lawton or Lina-Mayrand wavelets are selected, otherwise this is NULL).
name	A character string containing the name of the filter.
family	A character string containing the family of the filter.
filter.number	The filter number used to select the filter from within a family.

RELEASE

Version 3.5.3 Copyright Guy Nason 1994, This version originally part of the cthresh release which was merged into wavethresh in Oct 2012. Original cthresh version due to Stuart Barber

Note

The (Daubechies) filter coefficients should always sum to sqrt(2). This is a useful check on their validity.

Author(s)

Stuart Barber and G P Nason

See Also

wd, wr, wr.wd, accessC, accessD, compare.filters, imwd, imwr, threshold, draw.

Examples

#This function is usually called by others.
#However, on occasion you may wish to look at the coefficients themselves.

#
# look at the filter coefficients for N=4 (by default Daubechies'
# least-asymmetric wavelets.)
#
filter.select(4)
#$H:
#[1] -0.07576571 -0.02963553  0.49761867  0.80373875  0.29785780
#[6] -0.09921954 -0.01260397  0.03222310
#
#$G:
#NULL
#
#$name:
#[1] "Daub cmpct on least asymm N=4"
#
#$family:
#[1] "DaubLeAsymm"
#
#$filter.number:
#[1] 4

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