Therefore the two branches of a wavelet function can be
described accordingly:
MCO) = r-?. e
From the deduction in the previous section, we can obtain a
group of filter coefficients in they direction:
Formula (2) shows that the Gaussian normal distribution
function is a smooth function, and images’ mean peculiarity
stays unchanged after processing. To facilitate the discussion,
we first deduce the wavelet function and the wavelet filter from
the Gaussian function’s one-dimensional representation and
then extend it to two-dimensions (Lin, 2004).
According to the peculiarity that the scale exhibits progressional
variety, we deduced a group of multiscale wavelet filters from
the two dimensional Gaussian smooth functions and called them
anti-symmetrical wavelet as follows:
1 7t 3S 2 0 2 (0 2
h(s,x) k je 2 e Jka d(o
fj n 3s 2 g 2 co 2
g(s,x) t =^~ jj(oe 2 e jk<s> dao
The lowpass impulse response of the filter is symmetric at the
origin, the highpass response of the filter is anti-symmetric at
the origin and the truncation error is very small. They have the
characteristics of approximation compact support and
smoothness. Meanwhile nine groups of filter response
coefficients are given to realize the feature extraction from
coarse to fine and to provide a useful tool for multiscale edge
detection.
2.2 Two-dimensional Wavelet Transformation and Edge
Detections in Images
The two-dimensional Gaussian normal function (1) can be
expressed separately as
h(s,y) k =h(s,x) k
g(s,y)t =g( s > x )k
At last, a wavelet transformation can be implemented with the
convolution of the image and the corresponding filters:
~wjf(x,y)'
f*(G s ,H s )
W!'f{x,y)_
_f*(H s ,G s )
The filters in formula (7) consist of filter response coefficients:
H s = {h(s,x) k }, G s = {g(s,x) k }.
From (7), the grads’ module on the pixel (x,y) is:
mj=Vi »;7(*..rti ! i 2
The grads’ direction is
A f = arctan
W t a f(x,y)
Wjf{x,y)
We can use direction profile detection (Chen, 2003) to perform
extremum detections and acquire the edges in images with the
grads’ modules and the directions obtained from formula (7), (8)
and (9). In fact the convolution according to formula (7) can be
done in a dyadic space, i.e., s=2 J . If we don’t need to generate
multi-channel images, then there is also no need for
“extractions”, and even no need for lowpass filters. We can
reach the destination of multi-channel detection with different
filter scales(s=1.75- i ) (Cheng, 1998).