The coding gain of multiplexed wavelet transforms

In a recent paper, we introduced the multiplexed wavelet transform (MWT) and pointed out its potential applications to the analysis, synthesis, processing and coding of pseudo-periodic signals such as voiced speech and music. Coders based on the MWT have been shown to outperform the conventional subband coders when a reliable pitch parameter can be extracted from data, In this paper, we investigate the effects of uniform quantization of the MWT coefficients. We compare the performance of the new coders with that of WT, block-DCT, and KLT coders in terms of the coding gain achieved when optimal bit allocation schemes are adopted.