This paper introduces a new class of bases, called bandelet bases, which decompose the image along multiscale vectors that are elongated in the direction of a geometric flow. This geometric flow indicates directions in which the image gray levels have regular variations. The image decomposition in a bandelet basis is implemented with a fast subband-filtering algorithm. Bandelet bases lead to optimal approximation rates for geometrically regular images. For image compression and noise removal applications, the geometric flow is optimized with fast algorithms so that the resulting bandelet basis produces minimum distortion. Comparisons are made with wavelet image compression and noise-removal algorithms.
Abstract. Finding efficient geometric representations of images is a central issue to improving image compression and noise removal algorithms. We introduce bandelet orthogonal bases and frames that are adapted to the geometric regularity of an image. Images are approximated by finding a best bandelet basis or frame that produces a sparse representation. For functions that are uniformly regular outside a set of edge curves that are geometrically regular, the main theorem proves that bandelet approximations satisfy an optimal asymptotic error decay rate. A bandelet image compression scheme is derived. For computational applications, a fast discrete bandelet transform algorithm is introduced, with a fast best basis search which preserves asymptotic approximation and coding error decay rates.
We wish to estimate conditional density using Gaussian Mixture Regression model with logistic weights and means depending on the covariate. We aim at selecting the number of components of this model as well as the other parameters by a penalized maximum likelihood approach. We provide a lower bound on penalty, proportional up to a logarithmic term to the dimension of each model, that ensures an oracle inequality for our estimator. Our theoretical analysis is supported by some numerical experiments.
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