Wavelet Transform

We start by computing a complete wavelet-transform using the Cohen-Daubechies- Fevereau (2,2) biorthogonal wavelet (which incidentally seems to be the same as used for lossless JPEG2000, but they call it a (5,3)?).

For this, the image needs dimensions which are a power of 2. To achieve this, I simply repeated the last column and row of the image as necessary.

Doing the wavelet transform once, splits the image into average components as well as horizontal (HD), vertical (VD) and diagonal detail (DD) coefficients. Then we apply the transform to the resulting averages again and again, until the smallest average block has either a width or height that is equal to 2.

The coefficients resulting from one round of the transform are in the same so-called octave band (and are later on combined together via the reordering-process).

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