A generalized parametric PR-QMF design technique based on Bernstein polynomial approximation

A generalized, parametric, perfect-reconstruction quadrature-mirror-filter (PR-QMF) design technique based on Bernstein polynomial approximation in the magnitude-square domain is presented. The parametric nature of this solution provides useful insights to the PR-QMF problem. Several well-known orthonormal wavelet filters, PR-QMFs, are shown to be the special cases of the proposed technique. Energy compaction performances of a few popular signal decomposition techniques are presented for AR(1) signal sources. It is observed that the hierarchical QMF filter banks considered outperform the block transforms as expected.<
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