Sound Analysis and Synthesis Adaptive in Time and Two Frequency Bands

Abstract: We present an algorithm for sound analysis and resynthesis with local automatic adaptation of time-frequency resolution. There exists several algorithms allowing to adapt the analysis window depending on its time or frequency location; in what follows we propose a method which select the optimal resolution depending on both time and frequency. We consider an approach that we denote as analysis-weighting, from the point of view of Gabor frame theory. We analyze in particular the case of different adaptive time-varying resolutions within two complementary frequency bands; this is a typical case where perfect signal reconstruction cannot in general be achieved with fast algorithms, causing a certain error to be minimized. We provide examples of adaptive analyses of a music sound, and outline several possibilities that this work opens.