On the use of LSF intermodel interlacing property for spectral quantization

Abstract

The line spectral frequencies (LSFs) extracted from successive analysis orders are interlaced with each other. This intermodel interlacing property gives a new relationship between the closeness of LSFs and their spectral sensitivities, which enables us to propose a weighting function for LSF distortion measurement. By applying the proposed weighting function to an LSF quantizer, we can achieve better performance than when using the conventional heuristic functions. Moreover, the complexity of the proposed weighting function is much lower than that of the optimal weighting function, while their performances are almost the same.