Optimal design of nonuniform multirate filter banks

The design of general nonuniform filter banks is studied. Contrary to uniform filter banks, in nonuniform filter banks, it may not be possible to achieve perfect reconstruction, but in some cases by using optimization techniques, we can design acceptable filter banks. Here, the initial finite impulse response (FIR) analysis filters are designed according to the characteristics of the input. By the design procedure, the FIR synthesis filters are found so that theH-norm of an error system is minimized over all synthesis filters that have a prespecified order. Then, the synthesis filters obtained in the previous step are fixed, and the analysis filters are found similarly. By iteration, theH-norm of the error system decreases until it converges to its final value. At each iteration, the coefficients of the analysis or synthesis filters are obtained by finding the least squares solution of a system of linear equations. If necessary, the frequency characteristics of the filters can be altered by adding penalty terms to the objective function.This research was supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.