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- the present invention relates to encoding and manipulation of digital signals. More particularly, although not exclusively, the present invention relates to time-scale and/or pitch modification of audio signals. As such, the signal analysis and re-synthesis method described herein is not limited to audio signals. It is envisaged that the present invention may find application in the coding of other signals with the (wavelet-like) method described herein. An example of such an application includes image compression. Essentially the present invention may be applied where one wishes to simultaneously analyse different regions of the frequency domain with differing temporal/spatial resolutions
- Sinusoidal analysis techniques use Short Time Fast Fourier Transforms (FFT) to estimate the frequency of the component sinusoids.
- FFT Short Time Fast Fourier Transforms
- the derived signal is then synthesised with a bank of tone generators to produce the desired output.
- Short Time Fourier Analysis captures information about the frequency content of a signal within a time interval, governed by the Window Function chosen.
- a significant disadvantage of such techniques is that a single time-domain window is applied to all the frequency content of the signal, so the signal analysis cannot correspond accurately to human perception of the signal content.
- conventional sinusoidal analysis methods use a local maxima search of the magnitude spectrum to determine the frequency of the constituent sinusoids including consideration of relative phase changes between analysis frames. This technique ignores any side-band information located around each of the local maxima.
- phase vocoder methods This type of technique uses a Fast Fourier Transform as a large bank of filters and treats the output of each of the filters separately. The relative phase change between two consecutive analyses of the input is used to estimate the frequency of the signal content within each bin. A resulting frequency-domain signal is synthesised from this information, treating each bin as a separate signal. In contrast to sinusoidal analysis techniques, this method retains the spectral energy distribution of the original signal. However, it destroys the relative phase of any transient information. Therefore, the resulting sound is smeared and echo-like.
- the invention provides for a method of encoding and resynthesising a waveform, the method including: sampling the waveform to obtain a series of discrete samples and constructing therefrom a series of frames, each frame spanning a plurality of samples; multiplying each frame with a windowing, preferably raised cosine, function wherein the peak of the windowing function is centred substantially at a zero point of each frame; applying a Fast Fourier Transform to each frame thereby producing a frequency-domain waveform; convoluting the resultant frequency domain data with a variable kernel function, whose specification varies with frequency; locating local maxima and surrounding minima in the magnitude spectrum of each convolved frame, wherein each local maxima and associated minima define a plurality of regions, each region corresponding to a frequency component of the signal; and analysing each of the regions in the frequency domain representation separately by summing the complex frequency components of bins falling within the defined region into a signal vector; wherein the variable kernel function can be usefully varied to achieve a differing tradeoff
- the waveform corresponds to a digitised audio frequency waveform wherein the kernel function may be varied to approximate the perceptual characteristics of the human ear.
- the location of the maxima corresponds to the perceived pitch of the frequency component.
- the method may further include the step of manipulating the signal while represented as signal vectors.
- Such manipulation may take the form of modifying pitch or time scale (in an audio signal) or further data reduction adapted for efficient signal storage and/or transmission.
- the frequency location and phase of analysed signal vectors can be shifted as necessary to achieve a scaling of time and/or pitch.
- Converting back to the sampled time domain representation of the signal may be achieved by accumulating into the frequency domain an equivalent signal whose components correspond to those signal vectors determined in the analysis of the original signal.
- an Inverse Fast Fourier Transform may be applied so as to give a time domain signal that may be suitably windowed and accumulated to produce the decoded signal.
- the form of the convolution function is determined empirically by subjectively assessing the quality of the synthesised output.
- the application of the kernel function to the frequency domain data is implemented as a single-pole low-pass filter operation on said data, the pole's location being varied with frequency.
- the pole may be specified by a control function s(f) of the form:
- the frequency domain filter may be specified by the relation:
- each signal vector is treated separately; for pitch shifting the frequency of the component is multiplied by a real-valued pitch factor; for both pitch shift and time scale modification the necessary phase shift for glitch free reconstruction is calculated and applied.
- the method includes the further steps of: zeroing a frequency domain output array, and for each analysed frequency component represented as an analysed signal vector; mapping the real-valued frequency to the two nearest integer-valued frequency bins; and distributing the analysed signal vector between the two bins in proportion to 1 minus the real-valued frequency and the respective bins' locations.
- the resulting regions may be translated in frequency, so that the location of the maxima is scaled while the surrounding region is translated.
- each region having a maxima and a first and second associated minima, for pitch shifting of an audio signal, the location of each maxima in the frame is scaled by the pitch shift factor, and associated harmonic information between the first and second minima is translated to respective positions around the scaled maxima.
- each maxima is retained in the same location in the frequency domain while the band of frequency domain or harmonic information associated with the maxima is stretched or compressed, thereby stretching the amplitude and frequency modulation of the harmonics while preserving the pitch of the input signal.
- the method may further include the further steps of: resampling the data in each of the frames into a plurality of bins; mapping each bin to a real valued location in an output frame where for a bin x lying within a band with a maximum at a frequency freq max the real valued location in the output frequency domain iny, wherein
- y is rounded down to the nearest integer z which is less than or equal to y wherein output bins z and z+1 are then added to, in proportion to 1 minus the difference between y and that bins integer location.
- the invention provides for software adapted to perform the above-mentioned method.
- the invention provides for hardware adapted to perform the above-mentioned method.
- Figure 1 illustrates a simplified schematic block diagram of an embodiment of the method of the invention (split over pages 28 to 30);
- Figure 2 illustrates a simplified schematic block diagram of an embodiment of the alternate method of the invention
- Figure 3 illustrates a schematic diagram of the process of searching for the maxima/minima
- Figure 5a and 5b illustrates pitch and time stretching in respect of two maxima.
- FIG 1 a simplified flowchart illustrates the overall steps in an embodiment of the method of signal processing. For clarity, the schematic is split over pages 15 to 17.
- An input audio signal is digitised into frames 10. Each of these frames is then processed as follows:
- Each frame 10 is windowed (20) with (for example) a wide cosine function 30 producing time domain modulated representation of the input signal frame 10.
- a Fast Fourier Transform 50 is then applied to the frame producing a frequency domain representation of the input signal 60.
- the frequency domain data 60 is then filtered with a filtering function 71 parameterised by s(f).
- the filtering function may also be viewed as a low-pass
- the function s(f) 70 specifies how the behaviour of the filter varies with frequency.
- the filtering function 71 can be described by the recursive relation:
- s(f) controls the 'severity' of the filter 71.
- a different convolution kernel is used for each frequency bin.
- the real and imaginary components of each bin are convolved separately.
- the filtering or convolution function 71 has the effect of "blurring" the frequency domain information and therefore the convolving function can be referred to as a blurring function. Blurring or spreading the frequency domain data corresponds to a narrowing of the equivalent window in the time domain frame. Therefore each frequency bin of the fast Fourier Transform is effectively calculated as if a different sized time domain window had been applied before the FFT operation.
- the effect of the filter does not have to be to blur the data. For example, translating the time domain samples by half the window size would make it necessary to high-pass filter the frequency domain data, to achieve the same equivalent windowing in the time domain.
- the frequency domain filter 71 is applied to each bin in ascending order and then applied in descending order of frequency bin. This is to ensure that no phase shift is introduced into the frequency domain data.
- a key aspect of the present invention is that the control function s(f) is chosen, in the case of processing audio frequency data, so as to approximate the excitation response of human cilia located on the basilar membrane in the human ear. In effect, the function s(f) is chosen so as to approximate the time/frequency response of the human ear.
- control function s(f) is, in the present preferred embodiment, determined empirically by gauging the quality of the output or synthesised waveform under varying circumstances. Although this is a subjective procedure, repeated and varied evaluations of the quality of the synthesised sound have been found to produce a highly satisfactory convolution function.
- control function s(f) is:
- the aforementioned steps are analogous to an efficient way to process a signal through a large bank of filters where the bandwidth of each filter is individually controllable by the control function s(f).
- the convolved frequency domain data 80 is analysed (90) to determine the locations of local maxima and the associated local minima.
- the data is a local maximum
- Intensity(f) real(f) 2 + im(f) 2 .
- each maxima and associated local minima is used to define regions (indicated by the shaded arrows in figure 3) which correspond to an audible harmonic in the original audio frequency signal.
- the location of the maxima in the frequency domain corresponds to the perceived pitch of the harmonic and the band of the frequency domain information around the maxima represents any associated amplitude or frequency modulations of that harmonic. Since it is important not to lose this information, a summation of the whole band of frequencies around the peak is used to give a signal vector. This way the temporal resolution of the analysis sample will match the bandwidth of any modulations taking place.
- Each of the regions is processed separately accordingly to the following technique. An accurate estimate of the location of each maxima is determined.
- the large arrow a (300) is the difference between the smallest intensity of the three intensity arrows (max-1) and the maximum intensity (max).
- the small arrow b (310) is the difference between the smallest (max-1) and the intermediate intensity (max+1). The ratio of the two is used to offset the integer maximum value.
- Pitch shifting and time-scale modification are indicated schematically in figure 1 by the numeral 130. At this point alternative applications are indicated by data reduction (133) or transmission/storage (134) steps. These are illustrated as alternative options in figure 1.
- the manipulated data are re-synthesised according to the following method: For the ith analysed frequency component, vector(i) has a real-valued location y in the frequency domain output. y is rounded down to the nearest integer which is less than or equal to y and
- Bin[z] Bin[z] + [l-(y-z)] vector®
- Bin[z+1] Bin[z+1] + (y-z) vector(i) where all operations are carried out on complex numbers.
- the input time frame is moving by some other number of samples. Therefore, the analysed phase values are already changing as the analysis window moves through the input data.
- each of the signal vectors defined above has a frequency measurement. This measurement is used to calculate how quickly to spin a vector of magnitude 1, where the vector is a complex number of representation. This vector is multiplied by the signal vector to provide the necessary phase shift for synthesis without affecting the timing of the decay characteristics or other modulations for each region.
- This phase shift (in radians) is given by:
- phase( ⁇ ) r —
- t r reconstruction time step in samples
- t a analysis time step in samples
- t w FFT size in samples.
- One integer array contains the location of the local maximum within a region for all the bins in that region.
- a corresponding array contains the last phase value (in radians) used to rotate that regions phase.
- the phase value is stored in the bin with the same index as the location of the maximum.
- the thirteenth element of the nearest maxima array from the previous analysis frame n gives 16. From the phase array of the previous analysis frame n the phase is given as 57 degrees. A frequency estimate is used to update this phase value and is placed in the position 13 of the next phase array.
- a frequency domain representation of the signal is constructed from the known signal components. For each signal vector, that vector is added to the frequency domain output array. Since the frequency locations are real valued, the energy from a signal vector is distributed between the nearest two (integer valued) bin locations. The frequency domain representation is then inverse Fourier transformed (150 in figure 1 page 16) to provide a time domain representation of the synthesised signal. Since the signal was analysed with differing temporal resolutions at different frequencies, the synthesised time domain signal is only valid in the region equivalent to the highest temporal analysis resolution used. To this end, the synthesised time domain signal is windowed (160) with a (relatively) small positive cosine window (170), before being added (172) in an overlapping fashion to the final synthesised signal (180).
- the alternate method is substantially similar to the first method, sharing identically the steps of windowing (420), Fourier transforming (450), filtering (460), minima and maxima detection (490).
- the major difference between the two methods is after this point.
- the first method sums the contents of each region into a signal vector (110)
- the alternate method instead explicitly retains the contents of each region (510).
- the contents of each region are then translated and scaled in accordance with the pitch shift and time stretch factors respectively (530). For a pitch shift operation, the contents of a region are translated such that the maximum is scaled in frequency.
- For a time stretch operation the contents of a region are scaled by the time stetch factor, but so that the maximum does not change in frequency.
- Phase shift compensation is carried out substantially as described above with reference to figure 4a and 4b.
- the frequency domain data to be synthesised is copied a region at a time from the unaltered output of Fourier transform step.
- the contents of each region are accumulated into the output frequency domain buffer in the same fashion as the first method.
- control function s(f) to vary a frequency domain filter at different frequencies. This brings about a windowing effect on the equivalent time-domain data that varies with frequency.
- this control function is chosen to reflect the response of the human cilia to a range of audio frequencies.
- a further feature of the present invention resides in the identification and location of the maxima and associated minima.
- the presently disclosed technique is computationally highly efficient and allows rapid high quality time stretching and pitch shifting of audio signals.
- the present technique produces a sound with significantly enhanced tonal qualities and it is believed that this is largely achieved through the preservation of the harmonic information in the sidebands of the local frequency maxima.
- the technique may be implemented in software or alternatively in hardware.
- the hardware may form part of an audio component such as an audio player.
- Potential applications of the invention include the sound recording industry where audio signal processing/synthesis is commonly required to meet very high standards of reproduction quality.
- Alternative applications include those in the entertainment industry and it is anticipated that the technique may find application in sound reproduction/transmission systems where variations in pitch or tempo may be desirable. It is further anticipated that applications may exist in general signal processing, data reduction and/or data transmission and storage. In the latter case, the selection of the particular convolution function may vary.
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