An IIR implementation of the gammachirp filter has been proposed to
simulate basilar membrane motion efficiently (Irino and Unoki, 1999).
A reasonable filter response was provided by a combination of a
gammatone filter and an IIR asymmetric compensation (AC) filter.
It was noted, probably however, that the rms error was high when the
absolute values of the parameters are large, because the coefficients of
the IIR-AC filter were selected heuristically. In this report, we show
that this is due to the sign inversion of the phase of poles and zeros
in the conventional model. We propose a new definition of the IIR-AC
filter and we describe a method of systematic determining the optimum
coefficients and number of cascade for the second-order filter. This
results in a reduction of the error to about 1/3 that produced by the
conventional model.
Keywords: Auditory filter, Gammatone, Gammachirp, IIR asymmetric
compensation filter, Filter design
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