Framelets and Wavelets with Mixed Dilation Factors

As a main research area in applied and computational harmonic analysis, the theory and applications of framelets have been extensively investigated. Most existing literature is devoted to framelet systems that only use one dilation matrix as the sampling factor. To keep some key properties such as directionality, a framelet system often has a high redundancy rate. To reduce redundancy, a one-dimensional tight framelet with mixed dilation factors has been introduced for image processing. Though such tight framelets offer good performance in practice, their theoretical properties are far from being well understood. In this paper, we will systematically investigate framelets with mixed dilation factors, with arbitrary multiplicity in arbitrary dimensions. We will first study the discrete framelet transform employing a filter bank with mixed dilation factors and discuss its various properties. Next, we will introduce the notion of a discrete affine system in $l_2(\mathbb{Z}^d)$ and study discrete framelet transforms with mixed dilation factors. Finally, we will discuss framelets and wavelets with mixed dilation factors in the space $L_2(\mathbb{R}^d)$.