Title
Extending multifractal analysis to negative regularity: P-exponents and P-leaders
Abstract
Scale invariance is a widely used concept to analyze real-world data from many different applications and multifractal analysis has become the standard corresponding signal processing tool. It characterizes data by describing globally and geometrically the fluctuations of local regularity, usually measured by means of the Hölder exponent. A major limitation of the current procedure is that it applies only to locally bounded functions or signals, i.e., to signals with positive regularity. The present contribution proposes to characterize local regularity with a new quantity, the p-exponent, that permits negative regularity in data, a widely observed property in real-world data. Relations to Hölder exponents are detailed and a corresponding p-leader multifractal formalism is devised and shown at work on synthetic multifractal processes, representative of a class of models often used in applications. We formulate a conjecture regarding the equivalence between Hölder and p-exponents for a subclass of processes. Even when Hölder and p-exponents coincide, the p-leader formalism is shown to achieve better estimation performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/ICASSP.2014.6853607
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
data analysis,estimation theory,fractals,signal processing,Holder exponent,data analysis,estimation performance,negative regularity,p-exponent,p-leader multifractal formalism,scale invariance,signal processing tool,synthetic multifractal analysis processing,estimation performance,multifractal analysis,negative local regularity exponent,scale invariance,wavelet Leaders
Statistical physics,Signal processing,Mathematical optimization,Combinatorics,Scale invariance,Holder exponent,Equivalence (measure theory),Formalism (philosophy),Conjecture,Mathematics,Multifractal system,Bounded function
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1520-6149
2
0.50
References 
Authors
6
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Roberto F. Leonarduzzi1124.17
Herwig Wendt217033.82
Stéphane Jaffard3798.94
Stéphane G. Roux4477.97