Parseval wavelets on hierarchical graphs

Wavelets on graphs have been studied for the past few years, and in particular, several approaches have been proposed to design wavelet transforms on hierarchical graphs. Although such methods are computationally efficient and easy to implement, their frames are highly restricted. In this paper, we propose a general framework for the design of wavelet transforms on hierarchical graphs. Our design is guaranteed to be a Parseval tight frame, which preserves the l2 norm of any input signals. To demonstrate the potential usefulness of our approach, we perform several experiments, in which we learn a wavelet frame based on our framework, and show, in inpainting experiments, that it performs better than a Haar-like hierarchical wavelet transform and a learned treelet. We also show with category theory that the algebraic properties of the proposed transform have a strong relationship with those of the hierarchical graph that represents the structure of the given data.