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Design of Closed-Form QMF Filters with Maximally Flat and Half-Band Characteristics in the Frequency Domain  

Jeon, Joon-Hyeon (Dept. of Information and Communication Engineering, Dongguk University)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP / v.44, no.4, 2007 , pp. 70-77 More about this Journal
Abstract
Two kinds of QMF(Quadrature Mirror Filter) pairs are used in JPEG2000 standard, which don't have QMF distortions. However, the QMF pairs have the main disadvantages such that there are gentle roll-off rate, ripples in the passband and unequal band decomposition. In this paper, Maxflat(maximally flat) QMF pairs with a half-band gain are proposed for overcoming these problems. Maxflat QMF pairs are realized due to generalized closed-form formulas, and the filters have maximally flat response in the passband/stopband as well as sharp roll-off rate in the transition band. Comparing proposed filters and JPEG2000's filters in frequency domain, it is found that proposed filters have better performance JPEG2000's filters. Moreover, Maxflat QMF pairs show stopband-attenuation exceeding 200 dB almost everywhere.
Keywords
QMF; nonrecursive filter; QMF filter; Closed-form design; maxflat filter;
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