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Review and Discussion on Classical STFT-based Frequency Estimators

Authors: Betser, Michaël; Collen, Patrice; David, Bertrand; Richard, Gaël

AES Convention 120 · Paper 6765 · May 2006

Abstract

Sinusoidal modeling is based on the decomposition of audio signals into a sum of sinusoidal components plus a noise residual part. It involves accurate sinusoid parameters estimation and, in particular, accurate frequency estimation. A broad category of methods uses the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) as a starting point to compute frequency. All these methods present very similar forms of estimators, but the relations between them are not yet fully understood. This work proposes to take a deeper look into these relations. The first goal of this work is to present a clear review and description fo the classical FFT-based frequency estimator. A new estimator similar to the phase vocoder is presented. The second goal of this work is to identify the common hypotheses and the common steps of the process for this category of estimator. Lastly, experimental comparisons are given.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 120
AES Convention
120
Paper number
6765
Publication date
May 6, 2006
Session subject
Signal Processing; High Resolution Audio
Affiliation
ENST; France Télécom R&D (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper