A Novel Technique for Designing Multirate Filter Banks Exploiting Quasi-Newton Optimization

Abstract— This paper proposes a new technique for the design of multirate filter banks with linear phase in frequency domain. To match the ideal system response, low-pass analysis prototype filter response is optimized to minimize an objective function. The objective function is formulated as a weighted sum of pass-band error and stop-band residual energy of low-pass analysis filter, the square error of the overall transfer function at the quadrature frequency and amplitude distortion of the filter bank. Quasi-Newton optimization method is used to minimize the objective function by optimizing the filter tap weights of the prototype filter. Simulation results show that the proposed method is able to perform better than other existing methods.