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Extreme Value Analysis of Empirical Frame Coefficients and Implications for Denoising by Soft-Thresholding

Markus Haltmeier·Axel Munk
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Denoising by frame thresholding is one of the most basic and efficient methods for recovering a discrete signal or image from data that are corrupted by additive Gaussian white noise. The basic idea is to select a frame of analyzing elements that separates the data in few large coefficients due to the signal and many small coefficients mainly due to the noise ε_n. Removing all data coefficients being in magnitude below a certain threshold yields a reconstruction of the original signal. In order to properly balance the amount of noise to be removed and the relevant signal features to be kept, a precise understanding of the statistical properties of thresholding is important. For that purpose we derive the asymptotic distribution of max_{ω\in Ω_n} |<ϕ_ω^n,ε_n>| for a wide class of redundant frames (ϕ_ω^n: ω\in Ω_n}. Based on our theoretical results we give a rationale for universal extreme value thresholding techniques yielding asymptotically sharp confidence regions and smoothness estimates corresponding to prescribed significance levels. The results cover many frames used in imaging and signal recovery applications, such as redundant wavelet systems, curvelet frames, or unions of bases. We show that `generically' a standard Gumbel law results as it is known from the case of orthonormal wavelet bases. However, for specific highly redundant frames other limiting laws may occur. We indeed verify that the translation invariant wavelet transform shows a different asymptotic behaviour.

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Markus Haltmeier, Axel Munk. 2013-08-02. Extreme Value Analysis of Empirical Frame Coefficients and Implications for Denoising by Soft-Thresholding. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acha.2013.07.004

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