Density results for subspace multiwindow Gabor systems in the rational case

Let S be a periodic set in R and L2(S) be a subspace of L2 (R). This paper investigates the density problem for multiwindow Gabor systems in L2(S) for the case that the product of time-frequency shift parameters is a rational number. We derive the density conditions for a multiwindow Gabor system to be complete (a frame) in L2(S). Under such conditions, we construct a multiwindow tight Gabor frame for L2(S) with window functions being characteristic functions. We also provide a characterization of a multiwindow Gabor frame to be a Riesz basis for L2(S), and obtain the density condition for a multiwindow Gabor Riesz basis for L2(S).     

Gabor frames by sampling and periodization

By sampling the window of a Gabor frame for belonging to Feichtinger’s algebra, , one obtains a Gabor frame for . In this article we present a survey of results by R. Orr and A.J.E.M. Janssen and extend their ideas to cover interrelations among Gabor frames for the four spaces , , and . Some new results about general dual windows with respect to sampling and periodization are presented as well. This theory is used to show a new result of the Kaiblinger type to construct an approximation to the canonical dual window of a Gabor frame for .      

Subspace dual super wavelet and Gabor frames

Due to its potential applications in multiplexing techniques, the study of superframes has interested some researchers. This paper addresses dual super wavelet and Gabor frames in the subspace setting. We obtain a basic-equation characterization for subspace dual super wavelet and Gabor frames. In addition, applying this characterization, we derive a procedure that allows for constructing subspace dual super wavelet frames based on certain subspace dual super Gabor frames, and vice versa. Our results are new even in L²(R;C ^L ) setting.     

Characterization of rationally sampled quaternionic dual Gabor frames

This paper addresses quaternionic dual Gabor frames under the condition that the products of time-frequency shift parameters are rational numbers. For a general overcomplete quaternionic Gabor frame with the product of time-frequency shift parameters not equal to $\frac{1}{2}$, we show that its corresponding frame and translation operators do not commute, which leads to its canonical dual frame not having the Gabor structure, but it may have other dual frames with Gabor structure. We characterize when two quaternionic Gabor Bessel sequences form a pair of dual frames, and present a class of quaternionic dual Gabor frames. We also characterize quaternionic Gabor Riesz bases and prove that their canonical dual frames have Gabor structure.     

Stability of Gabor frames with arbitrary sampling points

Summary We study the stability of Gabor frames with arbitrary sampling points in the time-frequency plane, in several aspects. We prove that a Gabor frame generated by a window function in the Segal algebra S₀(R^d) remains a frame even if (possibly) all the sampling points undergo an arbitrary perturbation, as long as this is uniformly small. We give explicit stability bounds when the window function is nice enough, showing that the allowed perturbation depends only on the lower frame bound of the original family and some qualitative parameters of the window under consideration. For the perturbation of window functions we show that a Gabor frame generated by any window function with arbitrary sampling points remains a frame when the window function has a small perturbation in S₀(R^d) sense. We also study the stability of dual frames, which is useful in practice but has not found much attention in the literature. We give some general results on this topic and explain consequences to Gabor frames.     

Compactly supported tight and sibling frames with maximum vanishing moments

The notion of vanishing-moment recovery (VMR) functions is introduced in this paper for the construction of compactly supported tight frames with two generators having the maximum order of vanishing moments as determined by the given refinable function, such as the mth order cardinal B-spline N_m. Tight frames are also extended to “sibling frames” to allow additional properties, such as symmetry (or antisymmetry), minimum support, “shift-invariance,” and inter-orthogonality. For N_m, it turns out that symmetry can be achieved for even m and antisymmetry for odd m, that minimum support and shift-invariance can be attained by considering the frame generators with two-scale symbols 2^−m(1−z)^m and 2^−mz(1−z)^m, and that inter-orthogonality is always achievable, but sometimes at the sacrifice of symmetry. The results in this paper are valid for all compactly supported refinable functions that are reasonably smooth, such as piecewise Lipα for some α>0, as long as the corresponding two-scale Laurent polynomial symbols vanish at z=−1. Furthermore, the methods developed here can be extended to the more general setting, such as arbitrary integer scaling factors, multi-wavelets, and certainly biframes (i.e., allowing the dual frames to be associated with a different refinable function).     

Constructing super Gabor frames: the rational time-frequency lattice case

For a time-frequency lattice Λ = A Z d B Z d , it is known that an orthonormal super Gabor frame of length L exists with respect to this lattice if and only if |det( AB) | = 1 L . The proof of this result involves various techniques from multi-lattice tiling and operator algebra theory, and it is far from constructive. In this paper we present a very general scheme for constructing super Gabor frames for the rational lattice case. Our method is based on partitioning an arbitrary fundamental domain of the lattice in the frequency domain such that each subset in the partition tiles R d by the lattice in the time domain. This approach not only provides us a simple algorithm of constructing various kinds of orthonormal super Gabor frames with flexible length and multiplicity, but also allows us to construct super Gabor (non-Riesz) frames with high order smoothness and regularity. Several examples are also presented.     

Compactly supported tight affine spline frames in

The theory of fiberization is applied to yield compactly supported tight affine frames (wavelets) in from box splines. The wavelets obtained are smooth piecewise-polynomials on a simple mesh; furthermore, they exhibit a wealth of symmetries, and have a relatively small support. The number of ``mother wavelets', however, increases with the increase of the required smoothness.

Two bivariate constructions, of potential practical value, are highlighted. In both, the wavelets are derived from four-direction mesh box splines that are refinable with respect to the dilation matrix .

     

The existence of tight Gabor duals for Gabor frames and subspace Gabor frames

Let K and L be two full-rank lattices in Rd. We give a complete characterization for all the Gabor frames that admit tight dual of the same type. The characterization is given in terms of the center-valued trace of the von Neumann algebra generated by the left regular projective unitary representations associated with the time-frequency lattice K×L. Two applications of this characterization were obtained: (i) We are able to prove that every Gabor frame has a tight dual if and only if the volume of K×L is less than or equal to . (ii) We are able to obtain sufficient or necessary conditions for the existence of tight Gabor pseudo-duals for subspace Gabor frames in various cases. In particular, we prove that every subspace Gabor frame has a tight Gabor pseudo-dual if either the volume or v(K×L)?2. Moreover, if K=αZd, L=βZd with αβ=1, then a subspace Gabor frame G(g,L,K) has a tight Gabor pseudo-dual only when G(g,L,K) itself is already tight.     

Time-domain characterization of multiwindow Gabor systems on discrete periodic sets

This paper addresses multiwindow Gabor systems on discrete periodic sets, which can model signals to appear periodically but intermittently. We give some necessary and/or sufficient conditions for multiwindow Gabor systems to foe frames on discrete periodic sets, and characterize two multiwindow Gabor Bessel sequences to foe dual frames on discrete periodic sets. For a given multiwindow Gabor frame, we derive all its Gabor duals, among which we obtain an explicit expression of the canonical Gabor dual. In addition, we generalize multiwindow Gabor systems to the case of a different sampling rate for each window, and investigate multiwindow Gabor frames and dual frames in this case. We also show the properties of the multiwindow Gabor systems are essentially not changed by replacing the exponential kernel with other kernels.     

Estimates, decay properties, and computation of the dual function for Gabor frames

We present a simple proof of Ron and Shen's frame bounds estimates for Gabor frames. The proof is based on the Heil and Walnut's representation of the frame operator and shows that it can be decomposed into a continuous family of infinite matrices. The estimates then follow from a simple application of Gershgorin's theorem to each matrix. Next, we show that, if the window function has exponential decay, also the dual function has some exponential decay. Then, we describe a numerical method to compute the dual function and give an estimate of the error. Finally, we consider the spline of order 2; we investigate numerically the region of the time-frequency plane where it generates a frame and we compute the dual function for some values of the parameters.     

Compactly supported multi-refinable distributions and B-splines

In this paper, we show that a compactly supported multi-refinable distribution is the convolution of some splines.     

Weighted irregular Gabor tight frames and dual systems using windows in the Schwartz class

We give a characterization for the weighted irregular Gabor tight frames or dual systems in L²(Rn) in terms of the distributional symplectic Fourier transform of a positive Borel measure on R2n naturally associated with the system and the short-time Fourier transform of the windows in the case where the window (or at least one of the windows in the case of dual systems) belongs to S(Rn). This result implies that, for certain classes of windows such as generalized Gaussians or “extreme-value” windows, the only weighted irregular Gabor tight frames (or even dual systems with both windows in the same class) that can be constructed with these windows are the trivial ones, corresponding to the measure μ=1 on R2n. Furthermore, we show that, if a such Gabor system admits a dual which is of Gabor type, then the Beurling density of the associated measure exists and is equal to one.     

Approximately dual Gabor frames and almost perfect reconstruction based on a class of window functions

It is a well-known problem in Gabor analysis how to construct explicitly given dual frames associated with a given frame. In this paper we will consider a class of window functions for which approximately dual windows can be calculated explicitly. The method makes it possible to get arbitrarily close to perfect reconstruction by allowing the modulation parameter to vary. Explicit estimates for the deviation from perfect reconstruction are provided for some of the standard functions in Gabor analysis, e.g., the Gaussian and the two-sided exponential function.     

Perturbation of wavelet and Gabor frames

In this work two aspects of theory of frames are presented: a side necessary condition on irregular wavelet frames is obtained, another perturbation of wavelet and Gabor frames is considered. Specifically,we present the results obtained on frame stability when one disturbs the mother of wavelet frame, or the parameter of dilatation, and in Gabor frames when the generating function or the parameter of translation are perturbed. In all cases we work without demanding compactness of the support, neither on the generating function, nor on its Fourier transform.