A Julia package for fast wavelet transforms (1-D, 2-D, 3-D, by filtering or lifting). The package includes discrete wavelet transforms, column-wise discrete wavelet transforms, and wavelet packet transforms.

1st generation wavelets using filter banks (periodic and orthogonal). Filters are included for the following types: Haar, Daubechies, Coiflet, Symmlet, Battle-Lemarie, Beylkin, Vaidyanathan.
2nd generation wavelets by lifting (periodic and general type including orthogonal and biorthogonal). Included lifting schemes are currently only for Haar and Daubechies (under development). A new lifting scheme can be easily constructed by users. The current implementation of the lifting transforms is 2x faster than the filter transforms.
Thresholding, best basis and denoising functions, e.g. TI denoising by cycle spinning, best basis for WPT, noise estimation, matching pursuit. See example code and image below.
Wavelet utilities e.g. indexing and size calculation, scaling and wavelet functions computation, test functions, up and down sampling, filter mirrors, coefficient counting, inplace circshifts, and more.
Plotting/visualization utilities for 1-D and 2-D signals.

See license (MIT) in LICENSE.md.

Other related packages include WaveletsExt.jl and ContinuousWavelets.jl.

Usage

Install via the package manager and load with using

julia> Pkg.add("Wavelets")
julia> using Wavelets

API

Wavelet Transforms

The functions dwt and wpt (and their inverses) are linear operators. See wavelet below for construction of the type wt.

Discrete Wavelet Transform

# DWT
dwt(x, wt, L=maxtransformlevels(x))
idwt(x, wt, L=maxtransformlevels(x))
dwt!(y, x, filter, L=maxtransformlevels(x))
idwt!(y, scheme, L=maxtransformlevels(x))

Wavelet Packet Transform

# WPT (tree can also be an integer, equivalent to maketree(length(x), L, :full))
wpt(x, wt, tree::BitVector=maketree(x, :full))
iwpt(x, wt, tree::BitVector=maketree(x, :full))
wpt!(y, x, filter, tree::BitVector=maketree(x, :full))
iwpt!(y, scheme, tree::BitVector=maketree(y, :full))

Wavelet Types

The function wavelet is a type contructor for the transform functions. The transform type t can be either WT.Filter or WT.Lifting.

wavelet(c, t=WT.Filter, boundary=WT.Periodic)

Wavelet Classes

The module WT contains the types for wavelet classes. The module defines constants of the form e.g. WT.coif4 as shortcuts for WT.Coiflet{4}(). The numbers for orthogonal wavelets indicate the number vanishing moments of the wavelet function.

Class Type	Namebase	Supertype	Numbers
`Haar`	haar	`OrthoWaveletClass`
`Coiflet`	coif	`OrthoWaveletClass`	2:2:8
`Daubechies`	db	`OrthoWaveletClass`	1:Inf
`Symlet`	sym	`OrthoWaveletClass`	4:10
`Battle`	batt	`OrthoWaveletClass`	2:2:6
`Beylkin`	beyl	`OrthoWaveletClass`
`Vaidyanathan`	vaid	`OrthoWaveletClass`
`CDF`	cdf	`BiOrthoWaveletClass`	(9,7)

Class information

WT.class(::WaveletClass) ::String              # class full name
WT.name(::WaveletClass) ::String               # type short name
WT.vanishingmoments(::WaveletClass)            # vanishing moments of wavelet function

Transform type information

WT.name(wt)                                     # type short name
WT.length(f::OrthoFilter)                       # length of filter
WT.qmf(f::OrthoFilter)                          # quadrature mirror filter
WT.makeqmfpair(f::OrthoFilter, fw=true)
WT.makereverseqmfpair(f::OrthoFilter, fw=true)

Examples

The simplest way to transform a signal x is

xt = dwt(x, wavelet(WT.db2))

The transform type can be more explicitly specified (filter, Periodic, Orthogonal, 4 vanishing moments)

wt = wavelet(WT.Coiflet{4}(), WT.Filter, WT.Periodic)

For a periodic biorthogonal CDF 9/7 lifting scheme:

wt = wavelet(WT.cdf97, WT.Lifting)

Perform a transform of vector x

# 5 level transform
xt = dwt(x, wt, 5)
# inverse tranform
xti = idwt(xt, wt, 5)
# a full transform
xt = dwt(x, wt)

Other examples:

# scaling filters is easy
wt = wavelet(WT.haar)
wt = WT.scale(wt, 1/sqrt(2))
# signals can be transformed inplace with a low-level command
# requiring very little memory allocation (especially for L=1 for filters)
dwt!(x, wt, L)      # inplace (lifting)
dwt!(xt, x, wt, L)  # write to xt (filter)

# denoising with default parameters (VisuShrink hard thresholding)
x0 = testfunction(128, "HeaviSine")
x = x0 + 0.3*randn(128)
y = denoise(x)

# plotting utilities 1-d (see images and code in /example)
x = testfunction(128, "Bumps")
y = dwt(x, wavelet(WT.cdf97, WT.Lifting))
d,l = wplotdots(y, 0.1, 128)
A = wplotim(y)
# plotting utilities 2-d
img = imread("lena.png")
x = permutedims(img.data, [ndims(img.data):-1:1])
L = 2
xts = wplotim(x, L, wavelet(WT.db3))

See Bumps and Lena for plot images.

Thresholding

The Wavelets.Threshold module includes the following utilities

denoising (VisuShrink, translation invariant (TI))
best basis for WPT
noise estimator
matching pursuit
threshold functions (see table for types)

API

# threshold types with parameter
threshold!(x::AbstractArray, TH::THType, t::Real)
threshold(x::AbstractArray, TH::THType, t::Real)
# without parameter (PosTH, NegTH)
threshold!(x::AbstractArray, TH::THType)
threshold(x::AbstractArray, TH::THType)
# denoising
denoise(x::AbstractArray,
        wt=DEFAULT_WAVELET;
        L::Int=min(maxtransformlevels(x),6),
        dnt=VisuShrink(size(x,1)),
        estnoise::Function=noisest,
        TI=false,
        nspin=tuple([8 for i=1:ndims(x)]...) )
# entropy
coefentropy(x, et::Entropy, nrm)
# best basis for WPT limited to active inital tree nodes
bestbasistree(y::AbstractVector, wt::DiscreteWavelet,
        L::Integer=nscales(y), et::Entropy=ShannonEntropy() )
bestbasistree(y::AbstractVector, wt::DiscreteWavelet,
        tree::BitVector, et::Entropy=ShannonEntropy() )

Type	Details
Thresholding	`<: THType`
`HardTH`	hard thresholding
`SoftTH`	soft threshold
`SemiSoftTH`	semisoft thresholding
`SteinTH`	stein thresholding
`PosTH`	positive thresholding
`NegTH`	negative thresholding
`BiggestTH`	biggest m-term (best m-term) approx.
Denoising	`<: DNFT`
`VisuShrink`	VisuShrink denoising
Entropy	`<: Entropy`
`ShannonEntropy`	`-v^2*log(v^2)` (Coifman-Wickerhauser)
`LogEnergyEntropy`	`-log(v^2)`

Examples

Find best basis tree for wpt, and compare to dwt using biggest m-term approximations.

wt = wavelet(WT.db4)
x = sin.(4*range(0, stop=2*pi-eps(), length=1024))
tree = bestbasistree(x, wt)
xtb = wpt(x, wt, tree)
xt = dwt(x, wt)
# get biggest m-term approximations
m = 50
threshold!(xtb, BiggestTH(), m)
threshold!(xt, BiggestTH(), m)
# compare sparse approximations in ell_2 norm
norm(x - iwpt(xtb, wt, tree), 2) # best basis wpt
norm(x - idwt(xt, wt), 2)        # regular dwt

julia> norm(x - iwpt(xtb, wt, tree), 2)
0.008941070750964843
julia> norm(x - idwt(xt, wt), 2)
0.05964431178940861

Denoising:

n = 2^11;
x0 = testfunction(n,"Doppler")
x = x0 + 0.05*randn(n)
y = denoise(x,TI=true)

Benchmarks

Timing of dwt (using db2 filter of length 4) and fft. The lifting wavelet transforms are faster and use less memory than fft in 1-D and 2-D. dwt by lifting is currently 2x faster than by filtering.

# 10 iterations
dwt by filtering (N=1048576), 20 levels
elapsed time: 0.247907616 seconds (125861504 bytes allocated, 8.81% gc time)
dwt by lifting (N=1048576), 20 levels
elapsed time: 0.131240966 seconds (104898544 bytes allocated, 17.48% gc time)
fft (N=1048576), (FFTW)
elapsed time: 0.487693289 seconds (167805296 bytes allocated, 8.67% gc time)

For 2-D transforms (using a db4 filter and CDF 9/7 lifting scheme):

# 10 iterations
dwt by filtering (N=1024x1024), 10 levels
elapsed time: 0.773281141 seconds (85813504 bytes allocated, 2.87% gc time)
dwt by lifting (N=1024x1024), 10 levels
elapsed time: 0.317705928 seconds (88765424 bytes allocated, 3.44% gc time)
fft (N=1024x1024), (FFTW)
elapsed time: 0.577537263 seconds (167805888 bytes allocated, 5.53% gc time)

By using the low-level function dwt! and pre-allocating temporary arrays, significant gains can be made in terms of memory usage (and some speedup). This is useful when transforming multiple times.

To-do list

Transforms for non-square 2-D signals
Boundary extensions (other than periodic)
Boundary orthogonal wavelets
Define more lifting schemes
WPT in 2-D
Wavelet scalogram

Related Wavelet Packages

The Continuous Wavelet Transform can be found in ContinuousWavelets.jl
WaveletsExt which contains:

Stationary transform
Wavelet Packet Decomposition
Autocorrelation Wavelet Transform
Joint Best Basis and Least Statistically-Dependent Basis
Local Discriminant Basis

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