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`Abstract—A transmitted signal can arrive at a receiver via several
`[refracted Fermat paths. If the paths are independent in the Fresnel
`use, then the received signal can be modeled as the sum of amplitude
`scaled and time shifted copies of a predetermined replica plus white
`noise. We present an algorithm that uses the replica to determine the
`time shifts and amplitudes for each path. It is referred to as an n-
`tlimensional matched filter algorithm by analogy with the well-known
`nltched filter algorithm. The cross correlation between the received
`ignnl and the replica oscillates near the center frequency of the trans-
`mitted signal. This causes the n-dimensional matched filter output to
`lure many local maxima that are not globally optimal. The time shifts
`and amplitude scalings for the Fermat paths are determined by maxi-
`mizing the output of the n-dimensional matched filter. The algorithm
`lr more robust and efficient than others currently available. Simulated
`realizations of received signals were generated with multipath and noise
`characteristics similar to an ocean acoustic transmission case. These
`realizations were then separated into arrival times and corresponding
`amplitudes by the algorithm. The results of these tests and the general
`limitations of the algorithm are discussed.
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`1.
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`INTRODUCTION
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`Asound pulse transmitted in the ocean almost always
`arrives at a receiver via several paths. Theoretically,
`separating the pulse energy in the individual paths can be
`‘ impOSSIble. Path separation is possible if their arrival
`i times differ by at least one-half cycle of the pulse center
`‘ frequency. This condition is closely related to the Fresnel
`zones of the paths. (Fresnel zones ofray paths are defined
`and discussed in Section 7.1 of [1].) The signal process-
`.ng literature has many references to techniques such as
`lmatched filters, inverse filters, and many modifications of
`these and other methods which purport to determine the
`arrival time and amplitude of each path. These estimates
`are biased when the pulses from two or more paths over-
`lap in time. Nilsson3-[2] introduced a method that elimi-
`nates these biases. Ehrenberg et al. [3] and Ewart et al.
`i4] present a technique to evaluate Nilsson’s method,
`demonstrate the improved accuracies in the arrival time
`find amplitude estimates, and apply the technique to some
`limoustic observations. Ewart and Reynolds [5] discuss
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`"f3. M. Bell was supported by the Office of Naval Research under Code
`5AR. The work of T. E. Ewart was supported by the Office of Naval
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`Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105.
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`an application of the technique to acoustic data taken dur-
`ing the Mid—Ocean Acoustic Transmission Experiment,
`MATE. They also discuss the limitations of the method
`due to volume scattering. It was in their paper that the
`terminology “n-dimensional matched filter” was intro- 1
`duced. In its present implementation, the algorithm dc— '-
`scribed by Ehrenberg et al. would require 1—2 years on a
`VAX 750 to analyze the MATE data. It also would re-‘
`quire operator intervention about once every #0 received, ,
`pulses. The algorithm presented here can process the
`MATE data set in 20 days without operator intervention.
`The MATE data set consists of 2.9 X 105 received.
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`pulse can consist of up to three paths. The received signal
`r(t) is modeled as the sum of amplitude scaled and time-
`shifted copies of a replica so) plus white noise e(t); i.e.,
`r(t) = Efil ajs(t — r) + e(t). The term replica refers to
`the idealized received signal for the single path case with—
`out noise or scattering effects.
`A
`Throughout this paper, examples and results willbe
`presented. These have been computed with the replicas
`that were used to analyze the MATE data. In Fig.
`l‘ the
`replica s(t) for a 2083 Hz pulsed tone (four cycles input“
`to the transducer) is plotted together with sevétplreal
`izations of r(t). Bach realization has three pathsihwh
`overlap well within the pulse duration-:The signal-toeho
`ratio is 100; we define the signal-to-noise ratio as the
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`Regular-Pulse Excitation—A Novel Approach to
`Effective and Eflicient Multipulse Coding of Speech
`IEEE, ED F. DEPRETTERE, MEMBER,
`iEEE, AND ROB J. SLUYTER
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`PETER KROON, STUDENT MEMBER,
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`Abstract—This paper describes an effective and efficient time do-
`main speech encoding technique that has an appealing low complexity, 4f
`and produces toll quality speech at rates below 16 kbits/s. The pro—
`posed coder uses linear predictive techniques to remove the short-time
`correlation in the speech signal. The remaining (residual) information
`is then modeled by a low bit rate reduced excitation sequence that,
`when applied to the time-varying model filter, produces a signal that
`is “close” to the reference speech signal. The procedure for finding
`the optimal constrained excitation signal incorporates the solution of a
`few strongly coupled sets of linear equations and is of moderate com-
`plexity compared to competing coding systems such as adaptive trans-
`form coding and multipulse excitation coding. The paper describes the
`novel coding idea and the procedure for finding the excitation se-
`quence. We then show that the coding procedure can be considered as
`an “optimized” baseband coder with spectral folding as high-fre—
`quency regeneration technique. The effect of various analysis param-
`eters on the quality of the reconstructed speech is investigated using
`both objective and subjective tests. Further, modifications of the basic
`algorithm, and their impact on both the quality of the reconstructed
`speech signal and the complexity of the encoding algorithm, are dis-
`cussed. Using the generalized baseband coder formulation, we dem-
`onstrate that under reasonable assumptions concerning the weighting
`filter, an attractive low-complexitylhigh-quality coder can he obtained.
`
`I.
`INTRODUCTION
`N interesting application area for digital speech cod-
`ing can be found in mobile telephony systems and
`computer networks. For these
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`i
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`called delayed decision coders (DDC) [1, ch. 9], seems
`to be promising for these applications. Coders that belong
`to this class utilize an encoding delay to find the “best”
`quantized version of the input speech signal or a trans-
`formed version of it. Quite effective algorithms can be
`designed by combining predictive and DDC techniques to
`yield low bit rate waveform matching encoding schemes.
`A powerful and common approach is to use a slowly time-
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`revised March 5, 1986. This work
`ch Laboratories, Eindhoven, The
`Netherlands, and by the Dutch National Applied Science Foundation under
`Grant STW DEL 44.0643.
`P. Kroon was with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Delft Uni-
`» versity of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands. He is now with the Acous-
`tics Research Department, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
`07974.
`E. F. Deprettere is with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Delft
`University of Technology, Mekelweg 4, 2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands.
`R. J. Sluyter is with the Philips Research Laboratories, 5600 MD Eind-
`hoven, The Netherlands.
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`H. BASIC CODER STRUCTURE
`
`The basic coder structure can be viewed as a residual
`modeling process, as depicted in Fig. 1. In this figure. the
`residual r(n) is obtained by filtering the speech signal SO!)
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`varying linear predictive (LP) filter to model the short—
`time spectral envelope of the quasi—stationary speech sig-
`nal. The problem that remains is how to describe the re-
`sulting prediction residual that contains the necessary in-
`formation to describe the fine structure of the underlying
`spectrum. In other words, what is the “best” low-capac-
`ity model for the speech prediction residual subjected to
`one or more judgment criteria. These may include objec-
`tive and subjective quality measures (such as rate distor-
`tions and listening scores, respectively), but coder com-
`plexity can also be taken into account. Although certain
`models have been shown to behave very satisfactorily [2]—
`[4], the question of optimality remains difficult to answer.
`In this paper we address the problem of finding an ex-
`citation signal for an LP speech coder that not only en-
`sures a comparable quality with existing approaches, but
`is also structurally powerful. By the latter we mean that a
`fast
`realization algorithm and a corresponding high
`throughput (VLSI) implementation can be obtained. We
`propose a method in which the prediction residual is mod-
`eled by a signal that resembles an upsampled sequence
`and has, therefore, a regular (in time) structure. Because
`of this regularity, we refer to this coder as the regular-
`'
`‘
`PE) coder [5]. The values of the non-
`zero samples in this signal are optimally determined by a
`least-squares analysis-by-synthesis fitting procedure that
`‘ can be expressed in terms of matrix arithmetic.
`In Section II we describe in more detail the regular—
`pulse excitation coding procedure and the algorithm for
`finding the excitation sequence. In Section III we show
`that the proposed encoding procedure can be interpreted
`in terms of optimized baseband coding. In Section IV, the
`influence of the various analysis parameters on the quality
`of the reconstructed speech is investigated.7 Further, to ex-
`ploit the long-term correlation in the speech signal, the
`use of a pitch predictor is discussed. Modifications to the
`basic procedure, to attain a further reduction in complex-
`ity without noticeable quality loss, are described in Sec-
`tion V. Finally, in Section VI, we describe the effect of
`quantization on the quality of the reconstructed speeCh
`signal.
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`KROON el al.: REGULAR-PULSE EXCITATION
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`In this figure, the locations of the pulses are marked by a
`vertical dash and the zero samples by dots. If k (k =. l,
`2,
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`, N) denotes the phase of the upsampled versron
`of the vector b“), i.e., the position of the first nonzero
`sample in a particular segment, then we have to compute
`for every value of k the amplitudes b“"(-) that minimize
`the accumulated squared error. The vector that yields the
`minimum error is selected and transmitted. The decoding
`procedure is then straightforward, as is shown in Fig.
`1(b).
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`Fig. 1. Block diagram of the regular—pulse excitation coder: (a) encoder.
`(b) decoder.
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`A. Encoding Algorithm
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`Denoting by Mk the Q by L position matrix with entries
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`m,j=1ifj=i*N+k—1
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`k = 4= .
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`Fig. 2. Possible excitation patterns with L = 40 and N = 4.
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`through a pth-order time—varying filter A(z),
`p
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`Ac) = 1 + £11 akz‘k.
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`(1)
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`which can be determined with the use of linear prediction
`(LP) techniques as described in, e.g., [6]. The difference
`between the LP-residual r(n) and a certain model‘resrdual
`v(n) (to be defined below) is fed through the shaping filter
`l/A(z/y),
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`This filter, which serves as an‘ error weighting function,
`plays the same role as the feedback filter in adaptive pre-
`dictive coding with noise shaping (APC-NS) [7]/ and the
`weighting filter in multipulse excitation (MPE) coders [2].
`The resulting weighted difference e(n) is squared and ac-
`cumulated, and is used as a measure for determining the
`effectiveness cf the presumed model v(n) of the resrdual
`r(n).
`.
`The excitation sequence 1) (n) is determined for adjacent
`frames consisting of L samples each, and is constrained
`as follows. Within a frame, it is required to correspond to
`an upsampled version of a certain “optimal” vector b =
`(17(1),
`'
`'
`'
`, b(Q)) of length Q(Q < L). Thus, each seg-
`ment of the excitation signal contains Q equidistant sam-
`ples of nonzero amplitude, while the remaining samples
`are equal to zero. The spacing between nonzero samples
`is N = L/Q. For a particular coder, the parameters
`and
`N are optimally chosen but are otherwise fixed quantities.
`The duration of a frame of size L is typically 5 ms. Each
`excitation frame can support N sets of Q equidistant non-
`zero samples,
`resulting in N candidate excrtation se-
`cIuences. Fig. 2 shows the possible excitation patterns for
`a‘frame containing 40 samples and a spacing of N = 4.
`
`..
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`O S.
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`0 S j
`my = 0 otherwise
`the segmental excitation row vector 00‘), corresponding to
`the kth excitation pattern, can be written as
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`Q — l
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`s L — l,
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`(3)
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`v‘” = b‘kIMk.
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`(4)
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`.1;
`Let H be an uppertriangular L by L matrix whose jth row
`(j = 0,
`-
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`, L — 1) contains the (truncated) response
`h(n) of the error weighting filter 1/A(z/y) caused by a ntrit
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`If e0 denotes the output of the weighting filter due to'tlie
`memory hangover (i.e. , the output as a result of the initial
`filter state) of previous intervals, then the signal e(n) pro-
`duced by the input vector H“ can be described as
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`em = etO) _ btkin’
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`k = 1,
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`where
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`e<°> = e0 + rH,
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`and the vector r represents the residual r(n) for the current 1
`frame. The objective is to minimize the squared error
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`Ear) = emetic»,
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`(9)
`
`where t denotes transpose. For a given phase the optimal
`amplitudes b(k)(-) can be computed from (6) and (9), by
`requiring eme: to be equal to zero. Hence,
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`1,00 = e‘°)H;,[H,,H[]_‘.
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`(10)
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`By substituting (10) in (6) and thereafter the resulting. ..
`expression in (9), we obtain the following expression for V
`the'error:
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`(k) = (0) _ H: HHI —lHIJ e(0)t-
`e [1
`kl
`k
`k]
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`The vector b“) that yields the minimum value of E 0‘) over
`all k is then selected. The resulting optimal excitation
`vector v“) is entirely characterized by its phase k and the
`corresponding amplitude vector b“). The whole procedure
`'
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`f linear equations as
`y (10). A fast algorithm to compute the N vectors
`b“) simultaneously has been presented in [8] and [9]. We
`shall show in Section V that a further reduction in com-
`plexity can be obtained by exploiting the nature of the
`matrix product HkHL in (10).
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`FREQUENCY (kHz)
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`4.0
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`I6
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`32
`TIME (ms)
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`4e
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`64
`
`Fig.'4. Power spectra le(e ")I‘ for different values of k, obtained from a
`5 ms speech segment.
`
`I
`0
`.
`.
`.
`-
`Hence, with the matrix H and the Initial error e‘ ) as de—
`fined in the previous section,
`
`ear) = em) _ f(k)RkMkH
`
`'
`FI
`
`’
`'
`l for).
`(C)
`(a) Speech sIgnal s(n), (b) reconstructed speech srgna
`. 5.
`Excitation signal u(n), and (d) difference srgnal s(n) — £(n) In the RPE
`coding procedure.
`
`TABLE I
`DEFAULT PARAMETERS RPE ANALYSIS
`
`.
`
`Value;
`
`III. GENERALIZED BASEBAND CODING
`It may be observed that the regular—pulse excitation se-
`quence bears some resemblance to the excitation signal of
`excited baseband coder (BBC) using spectral folding as
`high~frequency regeneration technique [4], [10]. In this
`section we show that the RPE coder can be interpreted as
`a generalized version of this baseband coder. For this pur-
`pose We use the block diagram of Fig. 3. The blocks
`_ drawn with solid lines represent the conceptual structure
`of a residual excited BBC coder with
`this coder, the index k has no signi
`zero. In this scheme,
`the LP-resid
`tained by filtering the speech signal through the filter A(z),
`is band-limited by an (almost) ideal low-pass filter F0(z),
`downsampled to b(°)(n) and transmitted. At the receiver,
`this signal is upsampled to v(°’(n) to recover the original
`bandwidth, and is fed through the synthesis filter to re-
`trieve the speech signal fin). When the dashed blocks are
`included in Fig. 3, one provides a possibility to optimize
`the filter Fk(z), i.e.,
`to replace the ideal low—pass filter
`Fo(z) by another filter, which is more tailored to “opti—
`mal” waveform matching, where the optimality criterion
`is to minimize the (weighted) mean-squared error between
`the original and the reconstructed signal.
`We shall now show that for this “optimized” BBC ver—
`sion, the output of the filter Fk(z), after down- and upsam-
`pling, is exactly the excitation signal v(k)(n) as computed
`by the RPE algorithm, Thus, let there exist for each k, (k
`
`r ;I
`
`= et") — f<’°R,.H,,.
`Minimizing 9009002 we obtain as solution
`
`(18)
`
`Parameter
`
`f“" = e‘°)(RiHI)‘IRka(RkHI>‘I“.
`(19)
`Substituting this result in (15), we obtain the \kIector‘bU‘),
`which is equal to the pulse amplitude vector b‘ ) obtained
`via the procedure described in Section II (see the proof 1n
`the A endix .
`.
`Figfn; give)s an example of the spectra le(e "9)l2 ob—
`tained from real speech data. From this figure we see that
`the filters Fk(z) are rather different from the one (Fo(z))
`used in the classical baseband coder, and have a more all—
`pass character.
`'
`Although the RPE algorithm and the optimal BBC al-
`gorithm are conceptually equivalent, the optimized BBC
`variant will in general not offer any com

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