A generalized Papoulis-Gerchberg (PG) algorithm for signal extrapolati
on based on the wavelet representation has been recently proposed by X
ia, Kuo and Zhang. In this research, we examine the convergence proper
ty and the convergence rate of several signal extrapolation algorithms
in wavelet subspaces. We first show that the generalized PG algorithm
converges to the minimum norm solution when the wavelet bases are sem
i-orthogonal (or known as the prewavelet). However, the generalized PG
algorithm converges slowly in numerical implementation. To accelerate
the convergence rate, we formulate the discrete signal extrapolation
problem as a two-step process and apply the steepest descent and conju
gate gradient methods for its solution. Numerical experiments are give
n to illustrate the performance of the proposed algorithms.