A comparative study of performance of fpga based mel filter bank & bark filter bank
This is an incremental study for audio processing engineers, focusing on hardware implementation of existing filter bank techniques.
This paper tackled the problem of improving audio recognition performance by implementing MEL and BARK filter banks on FPGA hardware, comparing their performance across different bandwidths and signal ranges with designs verified using VHDL and Xilinx tools.
The sensitivity of human ear is dependent on frequency which is nonlinearly resolved across the audio spectrum .Now to improve the recognition performance in a similar non linear approach requires a front -end design, suggested by empirical evidences. A popular alternative to linear prediction based analysis is therefore filter bank analysis since this provides a much more straightforward route to obtain the desired non-linear frequency resolution. MEL filter bank and BARK filter bank are two popular filter bank analysis techniques. This paper presents FPGA based implementation of MEL filter bank and BARK filter bank with different bandwidths and different signal spectrum ranges. The designs have been implemented using VHDL, simulated and verified using Xilinx 11.1.For each filter bank, the basic building block is implemented in Spartan 3E. A comparative study among these two mentioned filter banks is also done in this paper.