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Such notions appear throughout the entirety of this thesis. It is especially noteworthy at this point that using a parametric dictionary provides a connection between overcomplete expansions and parametric models; this connection will be discussed and exempli ed in Chapter 6. 3 Example: Haar Functions An illustrative comparison between basis expansions and overcomplete expansions is provided by a simple example involving Haar functions; these are the earliest and simplest examples of wavelet bases 2 .
6 .. - -... Biorthogonal basis .................. .... .... .... -..... Frame . .. 7 .. . .. .. 6 . 6: Geometric interpretation of signal expansions for orthogonal and biorthogonal bases and an overcomplete dictionary or frame. Figure the basis vectors. 1. For the overcomplete frame, an in nite number of representations are possible since the vectors in the frame are linearly dependent. One way to compute such an overcomplete expansion is to project the signal onto a dual frame; such methods, however, are related to the SVD and do not yield compact models 70 .
3. 4. 5 a shows the signal x1 n = b2, the second column of the Haar basis matrix. 5 b shows a similar signal, x2 n = x1 n , 1 , a circular time-shift of x1 n . 5 d , however, indicates that the Haar basis decomposition of x2 n is not compact and is indeed a much less sparse model than the pure time-domain signal representation. Despite the strong relationship between the two signals, the transform representations are very di erent. The breakdown occurs in this particular example because the wavelet transform is not time-invariant; similar limitations apply to any basis expansion as discussed earlier.