On the design and realization of a class of uniform single rate FIR DFT filter banks

Abstract

In this paper we present a computationally efficient realization of single rate uniform FIR filter banks for audio and spectral analysis applications. The channel filters in the analysis bank are represented as modulated versions of a prototype narrowband lowpass FIR filter. Using the IFIR filter design technique [23], [24], this prototype lowpass filter can be designed very efficiently as a cascade of two subfilters. The IFIR filter design is extended for the two-branch realization of uniform filter banks with overlapping channels. A generalized structure is presented which can be used for bothodd andeven stacking arrangements of the channels. The shaping filter structures for the two branches are realized from a single delay line and a single set of filter coefficients, thus conserving the total number of multipliers and delays in the overall realization. The postfilter structure, in conjunction with the Generalized DFT matrices, performs the channel selection. The Generalized DFT matrices are used to provide the necessary modulation for the postfilter coefficients so that the appropriate passbands are selected for each channel of the analysis bank. This leads to a polyphase network realization of the postfilter structure. We derive conditions so that the original input signal can be exactly reconstructed from the channel signals.