Signal compression by subband coding

  • Authors:
  • Bruce Francis;Soura Dasgupta

  • Affiliations:
  • Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada M5S1A4;Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Iowa, IA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

This is a survey/tutorial paper on data compression using the technique of subband coding. This is widely used in practice, for example, in the MPEG audio coder. A subband coder has two main components: a filter bank that decomposes the source into components, usually with respect to defined frequency bands; and a bank of quantizers. Without the quantizers, the subband coder-decoder is a linear periodically time-varying discrete-time system, and hence falls into the class of multirate digital signal processing systems. The paper reviews the theory of such systems, studies the perfect reconstruction problem and a variant of it, reviews subband coding theory for a stationary input signal, and describes recent work for cyclostationary signals.