Filter design for CWT computation using the Shensa algorithm
Y.T. Chan, K. C. Ho · 1999
Direct computation of the continuous wavelet transform (CWT) using FFT requires O (Nlog/sub 2/N) operations per scale, where N is the data length. The Shensa (1992) algorithm is a fast algorithm to compute the CWT that uses only O(N) operations per scale. The application of the algorithm requires the design of a bandpass and a lowpass filter for a given mother wavelet function. Previous design method involves multi-dimensional numerical search and is computationally intensive. This paper proposes an iterative method to design the optimum filters. It computes in each iteration least-squares solutions only and does not need numerical search. The proposed filter design method is corroborated by simulations.