“…Nowadays, fractional transforms play an important role in information processing [15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31], and the obvious question is: why do we need fractional transformations if we successfully apply the ordinary ones? First, because they naturally arise under the consideration of different problems, for example, in optics and quantum mechanics, and secondly, because fractionalization gives us a new degree of freedom (the fractional order) which can be used for more complete characterization of an object (a signal, in general) or as an additional encoding parameter.…”