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Learning sparse representations on the sphere

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2019-01-23 v1

Abstract

Many representation systems on the sphere have been proposed in the past, such as spherical harmonics, wavelets, or curvelets. Each of these data representations is designed to extract a specific set of features, and choosing the best fixed representation system for a given scientific application is challenging. In this paper, we show that we can learn directly a representation system from given data on the sphere. We propose two new adaptive approaches: the first is a (potentially multi-scale) patch-based dictionary learning approach, and the second consists in selecting a representation among a parametrized family of representations, the {\alpha}-shearlets. We investigate their relative performance to represent and denoise complex structures on different astrophysical data sets on the sphere.

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@article{arxiv.1809.10437,
  title  = {Learning sparse representations on the sphere},
  author = {Florent Sureau and Felix Voigtlaender and Malte Wust and Jean-Luc Starck and Gitta Kutyniok},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.10437},
  year   = {2019}
}