ENERGY-BASED EFFECTIVE LENGTH OF THE IMPULSE RESPONSE OF A RECURSIVE FILTER

Timo I. Laakso¹ and Vesa Välimäki²

¹ Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Telecommunications Technology, P.O. Box 3000, FIN-02015 HUT, Espoo, Finland

² Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing, P.O. Box 3000, FIN-02015 HUT, Espoo, Finland, URL: http://www.acoustics.hut.fi/~vpv/

ABSTRACT

A measure for the effective length of the impulse response of a stable recursive digital filter based on accumulated energy is proposed. A general definition and a simple algorithm for its evaluation are introduced, and closed-form expressions are derived for first-order IIR filters. The effect of zeros on the effective length is analyzed. An upper bound for the effective length of higher-order filters is derived using results for low-order filters. The new measure finds applications in several fields of digital signal processing, including estimation of the extent of attack transients for filters with dynamically varying inputs, elimination of transients in variable recursive filters, and design and implementation of linear-phase IIR systems.

Keywords: digital filter design, digital signal processing, IIR filter, recursive filtering

This paper was published in the Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'98), vol. 3, pp. 1253-1256, Seattle, Washington, May 12-15, 1998.

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Last modified: 15 July, 1998
Author: Vesa Välimäki