The discrete wavelet packet transform iterates on both approximation and detail
coefficients at each level. In this transform, A denotes the
lowpass (approximation) filter followed by downsampling. D
denotes the highpass (detail) filter followed by downsampling. The figure represents
a wavelet packet transform in Paley ordering acting on a time series of length 8.
The transform has a depth of two.
Because of aliasing introduced by downsampling, the frequency content extracted by
the operator AD is higher than the frequency content extracted by
the DD operator. Therefore, the terminal nodes in frequency
(sequency) order are: AA,DA,DD,AD. The terminal nodes in Paley
order have the following indices: 3,4,5,6. The frequency order has the indices:
3,4,6,5.