Error Weighting and Frequency Warping

Audio filter designs typically benefit from an error weighting function that weights frequencies according to their audibility. An oversimplified but useful weighting function is simply , in which low frequencies are deemed generally more important than high frequencies. Audio filter designs also typically improve when using a frequency warping, such as described in [88,78] (and similar to that in §I.3.2). In principle, the effect of a frequency-warping can be achieved using a weighting function, but in practice, the numerical performance of a frequency warping is often much better.

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About the Author: Julius Orion Smith III
Julius Smith's background is in electrical engineering (BS Rice 1975, PhD Stanford 1983). He is presently Professor of Music and Associate Professor (by courtesy) of Electrical Engineering at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), teaching courses and pursuing research related to signal processing applied to music and audio systems. See http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/ for details.