The Monogenic Wavelet Transform

This paper extends the 1-D analytic wavelet transform to the 2-D monogenic wavelet transform. The transformation requires care in its specification to ensure suitable transform coefficients are calculated, and it is constructed so that the wavelet transform may be considered as both local and monogenic. This is consistent with defining the transform as a real wavelet transform of a monogenic signal in analogy with the analytic wavelet transform. Classes of monogenic wavelets are proposed with suitable local properties. It is shown that the monogenic wavelet annihilates anti-monogenic signals, that the monogenic wavelet transform is phase-shift covariant and that the transform magnitude is phase-shift invariant. A simple form for the magnitude and orientation of the isotropic transform coefficients of a unidirectional signal when observed in a rotated frame of reference is derived. The monogenic wavelet ridges of local plane waves are given.