Unified Design Procedure for Digital Filters in the Complex Domain

Mr. Worayot Lertniphonphun

Center for Signal and Image Processing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0250

Friday, July 13th, 2:00 PM, ENS 302

worayot@ece.gatech.edu

General Remez Algorithm in Matlab

Abstract

Digital filter design as a constrained norm problem is studied with the intent of producing a unified design algorithm for all types of filters-- FIR, IIR and 2-D FIR-- with complex specifications. The design problem is treated as an ``Approximation'' or ``Optimization'' problem where the theory and design techniques are developed. A general filter design norm is proposed to allow easy trade-offs between the relative importance of error energy and worst-case error. The Chebyshev, least-squares, and constrained least-squares problems become special cases because this norm uses a convex combination of the least-squares norm and the Chebyshev norm.

The primary benefit of this new problem formulation is that a single efficient multiple exchange algorithm (similar to Remez) has been developed to cover all the different filter types for magnitude and phase approximation. In the new algorithm, a small subproblem is formed at each step and is solved with an iterative reweighted least squares (IRLS) technique that can handle the design of complex filters easily.

Biography

Worayot Lertniphophun was born in Bangkok, Thailand, on October 21, 1974. He attended Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, where he received the Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering in May 1995. In winter of 1997, he went for graduate studies in Digital Signal Processing and Communications at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. He received the M.S. degree in June 1998. He received CSIP Outstanding Research Award in Spring of 2001 and he won the IEEE signal processing society's Mahkual's Challenge in May, 2001. His research interests include Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), Digital Filter Design, Mathematical Optimization, and Digital Communications.


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