@techreport{yoon2005the, author = {Yoon, Byung-Jun and Malvar, Henrique S.}, title = {The Design of Nonuniform Lapped Transforms}, year = {2005}, month = {September}, abstract = {We propose a new method for designing nonuniform lapped transforms. The proposed method provides a simple yet effective way of designing lapped transforms with nonuniform frequency resolution and good time localization. This method is a generalization of an approach proposed by Princen, where the non-uniform filter bank is obtained by joining uniform cosine-modulated filter banks using transition filters. In the proposed approach, we use several transition filters to obtain a near perfect-reconstruction nonuniform lapped transform with significantly reduced overall distortion. This method has several advantages over existing ones, especially in producing nonuniform filter banks with good stopband attenuation and short filters; the resulting reduced delay makes the proposed method preferable for applications such as real-time audio coding.}, url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/the-design-of-nonuniform-lapped-transforms/}, pages = {25}, number = {MSR-TR-2005-116}, }