An Interplay of Wigner–Ville Distribution and 2D Hyper-Complex Quadratic-Phase Fourier Transform

Abstract

Two-dimensional hyper-complex (Quaternion) quadratic-phase Fourier transforms (Q-QPFT) have gained much popularity in recent years because of their applications in many areas, including color image and signal processing. At the same time, the applications of Wigner–Ville distribution (WVD) in signal analysis and image processing cannot be ruled out. In this paper, we study the two-dimensional hyper-complex (Quaternion) Wigner–Ville distribution associated with the quadratic-phase Fourier transform (WVD-QQPFT) by employing the advantages of quaternion quadratic-phase Fourier transforms (Q-QPFT) and Wigner–Ville distribution (WVD). First, we propose the definition of the WVD-QQPFT and its relationship with the classical Wigner–Ville distribution in the quaternion setting. Next, we investigate the general properties of the newly defined WVD-QQPFT, including complex conjugate, symmetry-conjugation, nonlinearity, boundedness, reconstruction formula, Moyal’s formula, and Plancherel formula. Finally, we propose the convolution and correlation theorems associated with WVD-QQPFT.