In sparse signal representation, the choice of a dictionary often involves a tradeoff between two desirable properties – the ability to adapt to specific signal data and a fast implementation of the dictionary. To sparsely represent signals residing on weighted graphs, an additional design challenge is to incorporate the intrinsic geometric structure of the irregular data domain into the atoms of the dictionary. In this work, we propose a parametric dictionary learning algorithm to design data-adapted, structured dictionaries that sparsely represent graph signals. In particular, we model graph signals as combinations of overlapping local patterns. We impose the constraint that each dictionary is a concatenation of subdictionaries, with each subdictionary being a polynomial of the graph Laplacian matrix, representing a single pattern translated to different areas of the graph. The learning algorithm adapts the patterns to a training set of graph signals. Experimental results on both synthetic and real datasets demonstrate that the dictionaries learned by the proposed algorithm are competitive with and often better than unstructured dictionaries learned by state-of-the-art numerical learning algorithms in terms of sparse approximation of graph signals. In contrast to the unstructured dictionaries, however, the dictionaries learned by the proposed algorithm feature localized atoms and can be implemented in a computationally efficient manner in signal processing tasks such as compression, denoising, and classification.
Meanwhile, several transform-based dictionaries for graph signals have recently been proposed (see @cite_18 for an overview and complete list of references). For example, the graph Fourier transform has been shown to sparsely represent smooth graph signals @cite_7 ; wavelet transforms such as diffusion wavelets @cite_11 , spectral graph wavelets @cite_9 , and critically sampled two-channel wavelet filter banks @cite_4 target piecewise-smooth graph signals; and vertex-frequency frames @cite_5 @cite_33 @cite_19 can be used to analyze signal content at specific vertex and frequency locations. These dictionaries feature pre-defined structures derived from the graph and some of them can be efficiently implemented; however, they generally are not adapted to the signals at hand. Two exceptions are the diffusion wavelet packets of @cite_25 and the wavelets on graphs via deep learning @cite_8 , which feature extra adaptivity.
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In this work, we propose the construction of two-channel wavelet filter banks for analyzing functions defined on the vertices of any arbitrary finite weighted undirected graph. These graph based functions are referred to as graph-signals as we build a framework in which many concepts from the classical signal processing domain, such as Fourier decomposition, signal filtering and downsampling can be extended to graph domain. Especially, we observe a spectral folding phenomenon in bipartite graphs which occurs during downsampling of these graphs and produces aliasing in graph signals. This property of bipartite graphs, allows us to design critically sampled two-channel filter banks, and we propose quadrature mirror filters (referred to as graph-QMF) for bipartite graph which cancel aliasing and lead to perfect reconstruction. For arbitrary graphs we present a bipartite subgraph decomposition which produces an edge-disjoint collection of bipartite subgraphs. Graph-QMFs are then constructed on each bipartite subgraph leading to “multi-dimensional” separable wavelet filter banks on graphs. Our proposed filter banks are critically sampled and we state necessary and sufficient conditions for orthogonality, aliasing cancellation and perfect reconstruction. The filter banks are realized by Chebychev polynomial approximations. Graph signal processing deals with the processing of signals defined on irregular domains and is an emerging area of research. Graph filter banks allow the wavelet transform to be extended for processing graph signals. Sakiyama and Tanaka (2015) 22 recently proposed a technique to convert linear-phase biorthogonal filter banks for regular domain signals to biorthogonal graph filter banks. Perfect reconstruction is preserved using the technique but the resulting spectral filter functions are transcendental and not polynomial. Polynomial function filters are desired for the localization property and implementation efficiency. In this work we present alternative techniques to perform the conversion. Perfect reconstruction is preserved with the proposed techniques and the resulting spectral filters are polynomial functions. HighlightsWe design filter banks for signal defined over bipartite graphs.Spectral filters are polynomials resulting in localization and efficient implementation.Technique is based on converting 1D regular domain filter banks.Perfect reconstruction is exactly preserved and spectral response shape is almost preserved. In applications such as social, energy, transportation, sensor, and neuronal networks, high-dimensional data naturally reside on the vertices of weighted graphs. The emerging field of signal processing on graphs merges algebraic and spectral graph theoretic concepts with computational harmonic analysis to process such signals on graphs. In this tutorial overview, we outline the main challenges of the area, discuss different ways to define graph spectral domains, which are the analogs to the classical frequency domain, and highlight the importance of incorporating the irregular structures of graph data domains when processing signals on graphs. We then review methods to generalize fundamental operations such as filtering, translation, modulation, dilation, and downsampling to the graph setting and survey the localized, multiscale transforms that have been proposed to efficiently extract information from high-dimensional data on graphs. We conclude with a brief discussion of open issues and possible extensions. We consider the problem of designing spectral graph filters for the construction of dictionaries of atoms that can be used to efficiently represent signals residing on weighted graphs. While the filters used in previous spectral graph wavelet constructions are only adapted to the length of the spectrum, the filters proposed in this paper are adapted to the distribution of graph Laplacian eigenvalues, and therefore lead to atoms with better discriminatory power. Our approach is to first characterize a family of systems of uniformly translated kernels in the graph spectral domain that give rise to tight frames of atoms generated via generalized translation on the graph. We then warp the uniform translates with a function that approximates the cumulative spectral density function of the graph Laplacian eigenvalues. We use this approach to construct computationally efficient, spectrum-adapted, tight vertex-frequency and graph wavelet frames. We give numerous examples of the resulting spectrum-adapted graph filters, and also present an illustrative example of vertex-frequency analysis using the proposed construction.