Design and Implementation of a Generic 2-D Biorthogonal Discrete Wavelet Transform on an FPGA

This paper presents an FPGA architecture for the separable 2-D Biorthogonal Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) decomposition. The architecture is based on the Pyramid Algorithm Analysis, which handles computation along the border efficiently by using the method of symmetric extension. For a J stage wavelet transform of NxN images, our architecture has a period of N² cycles per NxN image, and requires only the minimum intermediate storage size necessary. The architecture is highly scalable for different filter lengths and different octave levels. The design of a specific 2-D Biorthogonal 9&7 Wavelet Transform and its implementation on the Xilinx Virtex-E is taken as a case study.