M-Channel Filter Banks 1.1 2005/02/16 21:37:15 US/Central 2005/04/28 14:55:55 GMT-5 Douglas L. Jones dl-jones@uiuc.edu Douglas L. Jones dl-jones@uiuc.edu Charlet Reedstrom charlet@rice.edu Kyle Clarkson kclarks@rice.edu multirate signal processing The theory of M-band QMFBs and PRFBs has been investigated recently. Some results are available.

Tree-structured filter banks Once we have a two-band PRFB, we can continue to split the subbands with similar systems! ()

Thus we can recursively decompose a signal into 2 p bands, each sampled at 2 p th the rate of the original signal, and reconstruct exactly! Due to the tree structure, this can be quite efficient, and in fact close to the efficiency of an FFT filter bank, which does not have perfect reconstruction.

Wavelet decomposition We need not split both the upper-frequency and lower-frequency bands identically. ()

This is good for image coding, because the energy tends to be distributed such that after a wavelet decomposition, each band has roughly equal energy.