Modeling the Joint Statistics of Images in the Wavelet Domain

Eero P Simoncelli

Invited presentation, published in:
Proc 44th Annual Meeting of SPIE
vol 3813, pp 188-195,
Denver, CO. July 1999.
© SPIE, 1999.

I describe a statistical model for natural photographic images, when decomposed in a multi-scale wavelet basis. In particular, I examine both the marginal and pairwise joint histograms of wavelet coefficients at adjacent spatial locations, orientations, and spatial scales. Although the histograms are highly non-Gaussian, they are nevertheless well described using fairly simple parameterized density models.
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