NAG Library Function Document
nag_mldwt_2d (c09ecc)
 
1
 Purpose
nag_mldwt_2d (c09ecc) computes the two-dimensional multi-level discrete wavelet transform (DWT). The initialization function 
nag_wfilt_2d (c09abc) must be called first to set up the DWT options.
 
 
2
 Specification
| 
| #include <nag.h> |  
| #include <nagc09.h> |  
| void | nag_mldwt_2d (Integer m,
Integer n,
const double a[],
Integer lda,
Integer lenc,
double c[],
Integer nwl,
Integer dwtlvm[],
Integer dwtlvn[],
Integer icomm[],
NagError *fail) |  | 
 
3
 Description
nag_mldwt_2d (c09ecc) computes the multi-level DWT of two-dimensional data.  For a given wavelet and end extension method, 
nag_mldwt_2d (c09ecc) will compute a multi-level transform of a matrix 
, using a specified number, 
, of levels.  The number of levels specified, 
, must be no more than the value 
 returned in 
nwlmax by the initialization function 
nag_wfilt_2d (c09abc) for the given problem.  The transform is returned as a set of coefficients for the different levels (packed into a single array) and a representation of the multi-level structure.
 The notation used here assigns level  to the input matrix, . Level 1 consists of the first set of coefficients computed: the vertical (), horizontal () and diagonal () coefficients are stored at this level while the approximation () coefficients are used as the input to a repeat of the wavelet transform at the next level.  This process is continued until, at level , all four types of coefficients are stored. The output array, , stores these sets of coefficients in reverse order, starting with  followed by .
 
4
 References
None.
 
5
 Arguments
- 1:
  
      – IntegerInput
- 
On entry: number of rows, , of data matrix . Constraint:
  
this must be the same as the value  m passed to the initialization function  nag_wfilt_2d (c09abc). 
 
- 2:
  
      – IntegerInput
- 
On entry: number of columns, , of data matrix . Constraint:
  
this must be the same as the value  n passed to the initialization function  nag_wfilt_2d (c09abc). 
 
- 3:
  
      – const doubleInput
- 
Note: the th element of the matrix  is stored in . On entry: the  by  data matrix . 
- 4:
  
      – IntegerInput
- 
On entry: the stride separating matrix row elements in  the array  a. 
 Constraint:
  .
 
- 5:
  
      – IntegerInput
- 
On entry: the dimension of the array  c.  c must be large enough to contain,  , wavelet coefficients. The maximum value of   is returned in  nwct by the call to the initialization function  nag_wfilt_2d (c09abc) and corresponds to the DWT being continued for the maximum number of levels possible for the given data set. When the number of levels,  , is chosen to be less than the maximum,  , then   is correspondingly smaller and  lenc can be reduced by noting that the vertical, horizontal and diagonal coefficients are stored at every level and that in addition the approximation coefficients are stored for the final level only. The number of coefficients stored at each level is given by   for   in  nag_wfilt_2d (c09abc) and   for  ,   or  , where the input data is of dimension   at that level and   is the filter length  nf provided by the call to  nag_wfilt_2d (c09abc). At the final level the storage is   times this value to contain the set of approximation coefficients.
 
 Constraint:
   , where   is the total number of coefficients that correspond to a transform with  nwl levels. 
 
- 6:
  
      – doubleOutput
- 
On exit: the coefficients of the discrete wavelet transform. If you need to access or modify the approximation coefficients or any specific set of detail coefficients then the use of  nag_wav_2d_coeff_ext (c09eyc) or  nag_wav_2d_coeff_ins (c09ezc) is recommended. For completeness the following description provides details of precisely how the coefficient are stored in  c but this information should only be required in rare cases.
 Let
  denote the number of coefficients (of each type) at level  , for  , such that  . Then, letting   and
 , for  , the coefficients are stored in  c as follows: 
 
- , for 
- Contains the level  approximation coefficients, .
- , for 
- Contains the level  vertical, horizontal and diagonal coefficients. These are: - vertical coefficients if ;
- horizontal coefficients if ;
- diagonal coefficients if ,
 for .
 
 
- 7:
  
      – IntegerInput
- 
On entry: the number of levels, , in the multi-level resolution to be performed. Constraint:
   , where   is the value returned in  nwlmax (the maximum number of levels) by the call to the initialization function  nag_wfilt_2d (c09abc). 
 
- 8:
  
      – IntegerOutput
- 
On exit: the number of coefficients in the first dimension for each coefficient type at each level.
 contains the number of coefficients in the first dimension (for each coefficient type computed) at the ()th level of resolution, for . Thus for the first  levels of resolution,  is the size of the first dimension of the matrices of vertical, horizontal and diagonal coefficients computed at this level; for the final level of resolution,  is the size of the first dimension of the matrices of approximation, vertical, horizontal and diagonal coefficients computed. 
- 9:
  
      – IntegerOutput
- 
On exit: the number of coefficients in the second dimension for each coefficient type at each level.
 contains the number of coefficients in the second dimension (for each coefficient type computed) at the ()th level of resolution, for . Thus for the first  levels of resolution,  is the size of the second dimension of the matrices of vertical, horizontal and diagonal coefficients computed at this level; for the final level of resolution,  is the size of the second dimension of the matrices of approximation, vertical, horizontal and diagonal coefficients computed. 
- 10:
  
    – IntegerCommunication Array
- 
On entry: contains details of the discrete wavelet transform and the problem dimension as setup in the call to the initialization function  nag_wfilt_2d (c09abc). 
 On exit: contains additional information on the computed transform. 
- 11:
  
    – NagError *Input/Output
- 
The NAG error argument (see  Section 3.7 in How to Use the NAG Library and its Documentation). 
 
6
 Error Indicators and Warnings
- NE_ALLOC_FAIL
- 
Dynamic memory allocation failed.
       
      See  Section 2.3.1.2  in How to Use the NAG Library and its Documentation for further information. 
- NE_BAD_PARAM
- 
On entry, argument   had an illegal value. 
- NE_INITIALIZATION
- 
Either the initialization function has not been called first  or  icomm has been corrupted.
 
Either the initialization function was called with   or  icomm has been corrupted.
 
- NE_INT
- 
On entry,  . 
Constraint:  , the value of  m on  initialization (see  nag_wfilt_2d (c09abc)).
 
On entry,  . 
Constraint:  , the value of  n on initialization  (see  nag_wfilt_2d (c09abc)).
 
On entry, .
 Constraint: .
 
- NE_INT_2
- 
On entry,  and .
 Constraint: .
 
On entry, .
 Constraint: , the total number of coefficents to be generated.
 
On entry,   and   in  nag_wfilt_2d (c09abc). 
Constraint:   in  nag_wfilt_2d (c09abc).
 
- NE_INTERNAL_ERROR
- 
An internal error has occurred in this function. Check the function call and any array sizes. If the call is correct then please contact  NAG for assistance. 
	See  Section 2.7.6  in How to Use the NAG Library and its Documentation for further information. 
- NE_NO_LICENCE
- 
Your licence key may have expired or may not have been installed correctly.
       
      See  Section 2.7.5 in How to Use the NAG Library and its Documentation for further information. 
 
7
 Accuracy
The accuracy of the wavelet transform depends only on the floating-point operations used in the convolution and downsampling and should thus be close to machine precision.
 
8
 Parallelism and Performance
nag_mldwt_2d (c09ecc) is not threaded in any implementation.
The wavelet coefficients at each level can be extracted from the output array 
c using the information contained in 
dwtlvm and 
dwtlvn on exit (see the descriptions of 
c, 
dwtlvm and 
dwtlvn in 
Section 5). For example, given an input data set, 
, denoising can be carried out by applying a thresholding operation to the detail (vertical, horizontal and diagonal) coefficients at every level.  The elements 
 to 
, as described in 
Section 5, contain the detail coefficients, 
, for 
 and 
, where 
 is the number of each type of coefficient at level 
 and 
 and 
 is the transformed noise term. If some threshold parameter 
 is chosen, a simple hard thresholding rule can be applied as
taking 
 to be an approximation to the required detail coefficient without noise, 
. The resulting coefficients can then be used as input to 
nag_imldwt_2d (c09edc) in order to reconstruct the denoised signal. See 
Section 10 in 
nag_wav_2d_coeff_ins (c09ezc) for a simple  example of denoising.
See the references given in the introduction to this chapter for a more complete account of wavelet denoising and other applications.
 
10
 Example
This example performs a multi-level resolution transform of a dataset using the Daubechies wavelet (see 
 in 
nag_wfilt_2d (c09abc)) using half-point symmetric end extensions, the maximum possible number of levels of resolution, where the number of coefficients in each level and the coefficients themselves are not changed. The original dataset is then reconstructed using 
nag_imldwt_2d (c09edc).
 
10.1
 Program Text
Program Text (c09ecce.c)
 
10.2
 Program Data
Program Data (c09ecce.d)
 
10.3
 Program Results
Program Results (c09ecce.r)