Nonuniform sampling and antialiasing in image representation

Abstract

A unified approach to the representation and processing of a class of images which are not bandlimited but belong to the space of locally bandlimited signals is presented. A nonuniform sampling theorem (Clark et al, 1985) for functions belonging to this space is extended, and a class of nonstationary stochastic processes is considered. The space of locally bandlimited signals is shown to be a reproducing-kernel space. A generalized projection theorem can therefore be applied, yielding either a continuous or a discrete projection filter. The former can be used for image conditioning prior to nonuniform sampling, while the latter provides a general tool for image representation by nonuniform sampling schemes. The problem of finding the local bandwidth of a given signal, in order to generate an optimal sampling scheme, is addressed in the context of signal representation in the combined position-frequency space. The stochastic estimation of parameters which characterize the local bandwidth is discussed. Bounds on the error resulting from the utilization of nonexact position-varying signal parameters are derived.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>