MULTISCALE MODULUS FILTER BANK AND APPLICATIONS TO PATTERN DETECTION, CLUSTERING, CLASSIFICATION AND REGISTRATION

摘要

A digital filter bank having a number J ‰¥ 1 of stages is disclosed. For each integer j such that 1 ‰¤ j ‰¤ J, the j-th stage comprises a plurality of filtering units (20, 21) each receiving an input signal of the j-th stage. These filtering units include a low-pass filtering unit (20) using real filtering coefficients and at least one band-pass filtering unit (21) using complex filtering coefficients. Following each band-pass filtering unit of the j-th stage, a respective modulus processing unit (25) generates a processed real signal as a function of squared moduli of complex output values of said band-pass filtering unit. The input signal of the first stage is a digital signal supplied to the digital filter bank, while for 1 j ‰¤ J, the input signal of the j-th stage includes the processed real signal generated by each modulus processing unit of the (j-1)-th stage.