Wednesday, 27 March 2013

wavelet transform

                                         WAVELET TRANSFORM


A wavelet is a waveform of effectively limited duration that has an average value of zero. Wavelets are also defined as mathematical functions that cut up data into different frequency components and then study each component with a resolution matched to its scale. The comparison of wavelets with sine waves, which are the basis of Fourier analysis,  Sinusoids do not have limited duration they extend from minus to plus infinity. Where sinusoids are smooth and predictable, wavelets tend to be irregular and asymmetric. Fourier analysis consists of breaking up a signal into sine waves of various frequencies. Similarly, wavelet analysis is the breaking up of a signal into shifted and scaled versions of the original (or mother) wavelet.  It also makes sense that local features can be described better with wavelets that have local extent. 
Wavelet Transform is used to split the signal into a bunch of signals and represents the same signal, but all corresponding to different frequency bands. The principle advantage is they provide what frequency bands exists at what time intervals. Wavelet transform of any function f at frequency a & time b is computed by correlating f with wavelet atom .
                                                                           

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