This paper investigates the asymptotic behavior of the minimum risk threshold for wavelet coefficients with additive, homoscedastic, Gaussian noise and for a soft-thresholding scheme. We start from N samples from a signal on a continuous time axis. For piecewise smooth signals and for N→∞, this threshold behaves as C√(2logN)σ, where σ is the noise standard-deviation. The paper contains an original proof for this asymptotic behavior as well as an intuitive explanation. The paper also discusses the importance of this asymptotic behavior for practical cases when we estimate the minimum risk threshold
Published in:
Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on
(Volume:49
,
Issue:
6
)
Date of Publication: Jun 2001