The Hermitian hat wavelet is a low-oscillation, complex-valued wavelet.
The real and imaginary parts of this wavelet are defined to be the
second and first derivatives of a Gaussian respectively:
The Fourier transform of this wavelet is:
The Hermitian hat wavelet satisfies the admissibility criterion. The prefactor CΨ in the resolution of the identity of the continuous wavelet transform is:
This wavelet was formulated by Szu in 1997 for the numerical estimation of
function derivatives in the presence of noise. The
technique used to extract these derivative values exploits only the
argument (phase) of the wavelet and, consequently, the relative weights
of the real and imaginary parts are unimportant.