Uncertainty Principles for the Two-Sided Quaternion Linear Canonical Transform

The quaternion linear canonical transform (QLCT), as a generalized form of the quaternion Fourier transform, is a powerful analyzing tool in image and signal processing. In this paper, we propose three different forms of uncertainty principles for the two-sided QLCT, which include Hardy’s uncertainty principle, Beurling’s uncertainty principle and Donoho–Stark’s uncertainty principle. These consequences actually describe the quantitative relationships of the quaternion-valued signal in arbitrary two different QLCT domains, which have many applications in signal recovery and color image analysis. In addition, in order to analyze the non-stationary signal and time-varying system, we present Lieb’s uncertainty principle for the two-sided short-time quaternion linear canonical transform (SQLCT) based on the Hausdorff–Young inequality. By adding the nonzero quaternion-valued window function, the two-sided SQLCT has a great significant application in the study of signal local frequency spectrum. Finally, we also give a lower bound for the essential support of the two-sided SQLCT.