Representations of piecewise smooth signals on graphs

Abstract

We study representations of piecewise-smooth signals on graphs. We first define classes for smooth, piecewise-constant, and piecewise-smooth graph signals, followed by a series of multiresolution local sets to analyze those signals by implementing a multiresolution analysis on graphs. Based on these local sets, we propose local-set-based piecewise-constant and piecewise-smooth dictionaries as graph signal representations that, in spirit, resemble the classical Haar wavelet basis and are naturally localized in both graph vertex and graph Fourier domains. Moreover, they promote sparsity when representing piecewise-smooth graph signals. In the experiments, we show that local-set-based dictionaries outperform graph Fourier domain based representations when approximating both simulated and real-world graph signals.