A fast matrix iterative technique for the WLS design of 2-D quadrantally symmetic FIR filters

High computational complexity is a major problem encountered in the optimal design of two-dimensional (2-D) finite impulse response (FIR) filters. In this paper, we present an iterative matrix solution with very low complexity to the weighted least square (WLS) design of 2-D quadrantally symmetric FIR filters with two-valued weighting functions. Firstly, a necessary and sufficient condition for the WLS design of 2-D quadrantally symmetric filters with general nonnegative weighting functions is obtained. Then, based on this optimality condition, a novel iterative algorithm is derived for the WLS design problem with a two-valued weighting function. Because the filter parameters are arranged in their natural 2-D form and the transition band is not sampled, the computation amount of the proposed algorithm is reduced significantly, especially for high-order filters. The exponential convergence of the algorithm is established, and its computational complexity is estimated. Design examples demonstrating the convergence rate and solution accuracy of the algorithm, as well as the relation between the iteration number of the algorithm and the size and transition-band width of the filter are given.     

Design of 2-D Linear Phase Digital Filters Using Schur Decomposition and Symmetries

In this paper we present a new and numerically efficient technique for designing 2-D linear phase octagonally symmetric digital filters using Schur decomposition method (SDM) and the diagonal symmetry of the 2-D impulse response specifications. This technique is based on two steps. First, the 2-D impulse response matrix is decomposed into a parallel realization of k sections, each comprising two cascaded linear phase SISO 1-D FIR digital filters. It is shown that using the symmetry property of the 2-D impulse response matrix and the fact that the left and right eigenspaces obtained by SDM are transpose of each other, the design problem of two 1-D digital filters is reduced to the design problem of only one 1-D digital filter in each section.     

Design of two-dimensional FIR digital filters by McClellantransform and quadratic programming

A quadratic programming (QP) approach for determining the coefficients of the McClellan transform is presented for the design of 2-D FIR digital filters. Three features of the proposed method are as follows. First, the transform parameters are determined by minimising the integration of the squared errors along the desired contour. Second, a set of linear constraints are incorporated into the QP formulation such that the conventional scaling problem of the transform can be avoided. Third, the optimal cutoff frequencies of a 1-D prototype filter are obtained directly from the QP solution. Several design examples, including fan filters, elliptic filters, diamond filters and bandpass filters, are illustrated to demonstrate the effectiveness of the QP method     

Design of 2-D FIR Filters by a Feedback Neural Network

A Hopfield-type neural network for the design of 2-D FIR filters is proposed. The network is contrived to have an energy function that coincides with the sum-squared error of the approximation problem at hand and by ensuring that the energy is a monotonic decreasing function of time, the approximation problem can be solved. Two solutions are obtained. In the first the 2-D FIR filter is designed on the basis of a specified amplitude response and in the second a filter that has specified maximum passband and stopband errors is designed. The network has been simulated with HSPICE and design examples are included to show that this is an efficient way of solving the approximation problem for 2-D FIR filters. The neural network has high potential for implementation in analog VLSI and can, as a consequence, be used in real-time applications.     

A singular value decomposition derivation in the discrete frequencydomain of optimal noncentro-symmetric 2-D FIR filters

A new derivation is presented for the least squares solution of the design problem of two-dimensional (2-D) finite impulse response (FIR) filters by minimizing the Frobenius norm of the difference between the matrices of the ideal and actual frequency responses sampled at the points of a frequency grid. The mathematical approach is based on the singular value decomposition (SVD) of two complex transformation matrices. Interestingly, the designed filter is proved to be zero-phase if the ideal filter is so without assuming any kind of symmetry     

Design of 2-D FIR narrow transition band filters by double transformations using GA approach

In this investigation, subfilters are cascaded in the design of a 2-D narrow transition band FIR digital filter with double transformations, a transformation from wide transition band subfilter into 1-D narrow transition band filter and a McClellan transformation from 1-D filter into 2-D filter. The traditional method for designing a 2-D FIR digital filter with a narrow transition band yields very high orders. The difficulty of the design and implementation will increase with orders exponentially. Numerous identical low-order subfilters are cascaded together to simplify the design of a high-order 2-D filter compared to traditional design method. A powerful genetic algorithm (GA) is presented to determine the best coefficients of the McClellan transformation. It can be used to design any contours of arbitrary shape for mapping 1-D to 2-D FIR filters very effectively. A generalized McClellan transformation is presented, and can be used to design 2-D complex FIR filters. Various numerical design examples are presented to demonstrate the usefulness and effectiveness of the presented approach.

任意型一维FIR数字滤波器设计新方法

本文介绍了一种设计任意型（宽带、窄带、低阶、高阶、低通、高通、带通、带阻）一维FIR数字滤波器新方法．给出设计不同类型滤波器的统一方法。各种类型滤波器脉冲响应的设计公式简单、计算方便。该方法消除了Gibbs现象．不仅克服了优化设计中收敛速度、设计精度及初值选取等问题，而且减少设计高阶滤波器的时间。最后，本文给出了各种类型滤波器设计的仿真结果。     

Design of two-dimensional digital filters using singular-valuedecomposition and balanced approximation method

It is shown that the singular-value decomposition (SVD) of the sampled amplitude response of a two-dimensional (2-D) digital filter possesses a special structure: every singular vector is either mirror-image symmetric or antisymmetric with respect to its midpoint. Consequently, the SVD can be applied along with 1-D finite impulse response (FIR) techniques for the design of linear-phase 2-D filters with arbitrary prescribed amplitude responses which are symmetrical with respect to the origin of the (ωΨω₂) plane. The balanced approximation method is applied to linear-phase 2-D FIR filters of the type that may be obtained by using the SVD method. The method leads to economical and computationally efficient filters, usually infinite impulse response filters, which have prescribed amplitude responses and whose phase responses are approximately linear     

A fast design algorithm for elliptic-error and phase-error constrained LS 2-D FIR filters

Two-dimensional (2-D) nonlinear-phase finite impulse response (FIR) filters have found many applications in signal processing and communication systems. This paper considers the elliptic-error and phase-error constrained least-squares design of 2-D nonlinear-phase FIR filters, and develops a matrix-based algorithm to solve the design problem directly for the filter’s coefficient matrix rather than vectorizing it first as in the conventional methods. The matrix-based algorithm makes the design to consume much less design time than existing algorithms. Design examples and comparisons with existing methods demonstrate the effectiveness and high efficiency of the proposed design method.     

二维半平面线性相位FIR数字滤波器的最小二乘设计方法

本文研究了二维线性相位实系数FIR数字滤波器的最小二乘设计问题，导出了滤波器系数的闭式解。运用给出的计算公式可方便地计算滤波器的系数，而不必对矩阵进行数值求逆运算也不需要复杂的优化过程．设计实例表明本文给出的方法程序简单、计算时间极短．     

Eigenfilter approach for the design of variable fractional delay FIR and all-pass filters

An eigenfilter approach is presented for designing 1-D and 2-D variable fractional delay FIR and all-pass filters. First, the coefficients of filters are expressed as a polynomial of the fractional delay parameter. Then, the optimal polynomial coefficients are obtained from the elements of the eigenvector corresponding to the minimum eigenvalue of a real, symmetric and positive definite matrix. Finally, several design examples of 1-D and 2-D variable fractional delay FIR and all-pass filters are used to illustrate the effectiveness of the eigenfilter approach.     

二维零相位FIR数字滤波器设计的闭式最小二乘解

本文二维零相位ＦＩＲ数字滤波器的解析最小二乘设计技术。通过建立频域误差差函数的矩阵形式，并运用与设计问题有关的矩阵的一些性质，得到了滤波器系数的闭式解，使得由给定的频响指标可直接计算滤波器系数，而不必对矩阵进行数值示逆，也不需要基于迭代运算的优化过程。文中给出了滤波器实例，其结果证实了该设计方法的简便性与有效性。     

具有任意频响的二维FIR数字滤波器设计的闭式最小二乘解

本文研究具有任意频响特性的二维ＦＩＲ数字滤波器的最小二乘设计问题。     

Two-Dimensional Farrow Structure and the Design of Variable Fractional-Delay 2-D FIR Digital Filters

In this paper, a 2-D Farrow structure is proposed and used to implement variable fractional-delay (VFD) 2-D FIR digital filters. Compared with the existing literature, the desired response of a VFD 2-D digital filter is analyzed in detail, and it is found that there are four types of 2-D symmetric/antisymmetric sequences that need to be used for the design of VFD 2-D FIR digital filters. Moreover, due to the orthogonality among the approach functions, the four types of 2-D sequences can be determined independently, such that the dimension for each computation can be reduced drastically. For simplicity, only the designs of even–even- and odd–odd-order VFD 2-D filters are presented in this paper, and the other cases can be achieved in the same manner. To reveal the coefficient characteristics, the symmetric/antisymmetric properties of filter coefficients and the relationships between coefficients are all tabulated. Also, design examples such as nonseparable circularly symmetric low-pass VFD filters are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.      

Weighted least mean square design of 2-D FIR digital filters: thegeneral case

This paper solves the weighted least mean square (WLMS) design of two-dimensional (2-D) finite impulse response (FIR) filters with general half plane symmetric frequency responses and nonnegative weighting functions. The optimal solution is characterized by a pair of coupled integral equations, and the existence and uniqueness of the WLMS solution for 2-D FIR filter design are established. Two efficient numerical algorithms using a 2-D fast Fourier transform (FFT) are proposed to solve the WLMS solution. One is based on the contraction mapping and fix point theorem characterizing the coupled integral equation; the other uses conjugate gradient techniques, which guarantees finite convergence. The associated computational complexity is analyzed and compared with existing algorithms. Examples are used to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed design algorithms. The selection of weighting functions to improve the minimax performance of the filter is also discussed     

基于自适应神经网络的二维线性相位FIR滤波器优化设计

提出一种基于自适应三角函数基神经网络的二维线性相位FIR滤波器优化设计方法.该方法根据二维线性相位FIR滤波器幅频响应特性,采用三角函数基神经网络优化算法计算滤波器系数,同时在神经网络训练过程引入自适应学习率算法,提高神经网络的学习效率和收敛速度.通过训练神经网络的权值,使二维线性相位FIR滤波器幅频响应与理想幅频响应...     

Design of Variable Two-Dimensional FIR Digital Filters by McClellan Transformation

In this paper, the technique of McClellan transformation is applied to design variable 2-D FIR digital filters. Compared with the conventional transformation, the 2-D transformation subfilter and the 1-D prototype filter are designed such that their frequency characteristics are adjustable. Moreover, they are tunable by the same variable parameter, so the variable characteristics of 1-D prototype filters are coincident with those of 2-D subfilters. Several examples, including variable fan filters, variable circularly symmetric filters, and variable elliptically symmetric filters with arbitrary orientation, are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness and the flexibility of the presented method.      

Filters involving derivatives with application to reconstructionfrom scanned halftone images

This paper presents a method for designing finite impulse response (FIR) filters for samples of a 2-D signal, e.g., an image, and its gradient. The filters, which are called blended filters, are decomposable in three filters, each separable in 1-D filters on subsets of the data set. Optimality in the minimum mean square error sense (MMSE) of blended filtering is shown for signals with separable autocorrelation function. Relations between correlation functions for signals and their gradients are derived. Blended filters may be composed from FIR Wiener filters using these relations. Simple blended filters are developed and applied to the problem of gray value image reconstruction from bilevel (scanned) clustered-dot halftone images, which is an application useful in the graphic arts. Reconstruction results are given, showing that reconstruction with higher resolution than the halftone grid is achievable with blended filters.     

二维线性相位FIR数字滤波器的优化设计

该文提出了一种用神经网络算法来设计二维线性相位数字滤波器的新方法。通过分析二维FIR线性相位滤波器的幅频响应特性,建立了神经网络算法。根据给定的幅频响应指标,按该算法可获得滤波器系数。为保证该算法的稳定性,提出并证明了该算法的收敛定理。文中给出了圆对称和矩形对称二维低通线性相位FIR数字滤波器优化设计实例。计算机仿真结果表明由该方法设计的二维数字滤波器,通带和阻带范围波动小,所需计算量非常少,稳定性强,因而是一种优异的设计方法。     

Efficient 2-D based algorithms for WLS designs of 2-D FIR filters with arbitrary weighting functions

The impulse response coefficients of a two-dimensional (2-D) finite impulse response (FIR) filter naturally constitute a matrix. It has been shown by several researchers that, two-dimension (2-D) based algorithms that retain the natural matrix form of the 2-D filter’s coefficients are computationally much more efficient than the conventional one-dimension (1-D) based algorithms that rearrange the coefficient matrix into a vector. In this paper, two 2-D based algorithms are presented for the weighted least squares (WLS) design of quadrantally symmetric 2-D FIR filters with arbitrary weighting functions. Both algorithms are based on matrix iterative techniques with guaranteed convergence, and they solve the WLS design problems accurately and efficiently. The convergence rate, solution accuracy and design time of these proposed algorithms are demonstrated and compared with existing algorithms through two design examples.