JOINT MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM

UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO

WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY


Department of Mathematics

University of Idaho


Spring 2015

Thursday,  April 23, 3:30-4:20 pm, room TLC 223

Refreshments in Brink 305 at 3:00 pm


Partial Isometries and Tight Frames


 

Somantika Datta




Department of Mathematics

University of Idaho


Abstract

Frames have become a standard tool in signal processing due to their flexibility and robustness in signal representation. Frames can be thought of as redundant bases and tight frames emulate orthonormal bases while having the added flexibility. Tight frames are also desirable because they are numerically stable. This talk will address how to convert a frame for a given Hilbert space into a tight frame for the same space with the requirement that the resulting tight frame vectors can be written as a linear combination of the original frame vectors. The procedure uses the partial isometry coming from the polar decomposition of the synthesis operator of the starting frame.