A multidimensional isomorphic operator and its properties-a proposal of finite-extent multidimensional cepstrum

We propose a new multidimensional homomorphic operator that replaces the conventional complex cepstrum transformation. We treat multidimensional signals of finite support since any signal we can actually observe and deal with is of finite support. We first show that for any sequence of finite support there exists a coordinate transformation that transforms the support of a given sequence into the first quadrant in the multidimensional signal space. We then propose a new multidimensional homomorphic operator Ψ which transforms a sequence of finite support into another sequence of finite support in the first quadrant. It is proved that the operator Ψ is an isomorphism between two multidimensional signal spaces of finite support where finite convolution and usual addition, respectively, are defined as binomial operations. It is also shown that unlike the conventional complex cepstrum, the proposed operator Ψ is quite simple to compute and requires no complicated procedure like phase unwrapping, while it maintains the special features of the conventional complex cepstrum transformation that are useful in homomorphic signal processing. Moreover we clarify some algebraic structure of the multidimensional signal space with the finite convolution as a binomial operation. Finally it is shown by a numerical example that the deconvolution system using the proposed operator Ψ gives a much better result than the conventional complex cepstrum method