iqft2 — QUAT fourier op

Data kinds: qimageqimage

Call: import quatimage; quatimage.iqft2(spectrum, side, mu=None) -> 'np.ndarray' (or opsquat.get("iqft2"))

Usage

Inverse quaternion Fourier transform of a centred spectrum. → (H, W, 4).

The exact inverse of :func:qft2 for the same side and the same mu:

measured round-trip error `2.22e-15` for both sides on a standard-normal

`(32, 32, 4) field. The kernel is exp(+mu * 2*pi*(...))` applied on the

side named, and the `1/(H*W)` normalisation is carried here, as in

`numpy.fft.ifft2`.

Using the wrong side does not raise. `iqft2(qft2(q, "left"), "right")`

returns a finite, plausible quaternion image that is simply not `q`:

measured `max|err| = 1.113` on a random colour image whose own range is

`0.9994 (another seed: 1.063 against 1.0), and — the dangerous case — only 0.054` against a range of

`1.076` on a grey-axis-dominated one, which is small enough to survive a

look at the picture. The `side` argument is required at both ends for

exactly this reason, and the two calls must agree: nothing in the data

records which transform produced it, so nothing downstream can catch the

mismatch for you.

Raises `ValueError: *spectrum* is not a valid (H, W, 4)` field;

*side* is not `'left' / 'right'`; *mu* is not a finite non-zero

3-vector.

Detailed usage guide

quaternion_monogenic family guide

References (sample data, literature)

• Sample-data catalog (download URLs / licences) — 2-D uses skimage.data (BSD/public domain) plus synthetic images; 3-D lists download URLs for real data sources (Stanford, PDS, …).

• Operator provenance and references — the sources of the research/methods this op family came from.

• The canonical algorithm (author, year) and its uses are named in the family usage guide above.

Runnable examples (verified samples that actually call this op)

quaternion_monogenicpy -3.11 examples/quaternion_monogenic.py

Ops the type connects to (they accept qimage as input)

quaternion_to_rgb · quat_norm · quat_conjugate_image · quat_normalize_image · quat_image_multiply · monogenic_amplitude · monogenic_phase · monogenic_orientation

Same category (fourier)

qft2


*Provenance: quatimage.py — QUAT operator registry. This per-op note is generated by tools/opdocs.py md (do not hand-edit).*

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