In mathematics, convolution is a binary operation on functions.

Kinds

• Circular convolution
• Convolution theorem
  • Titchmarsh convolution theorem
• Dirichlet convolution
• Infimal convolution
• Logarithmic convolution
• Vandermonde convolution

Applications

• Convolution, in digital image processing, with a Kernel (image processing)
• Convolutional code, in telecommunication
• Convolution of probability distributions
• Convolution reverb, a process used for digitally simulating the reverberation of a physical or virtual space
• Convolution random number generator, a pseudo-random number sampling method that can be used to generate random variates from certain classes of probability distribution

See also

• Convolute (disambiguation)