Biorthogonal M-band filter construction using the lifting scheme

The lifting scheme has been proposed as a new idea for the construction of 2-band compactly supported wavelets with compactly-supported duals. The basic idea behind the lifting scheme is that it provides a simple relationship between all multiresolution analyses sharing the same scaling function. It is therefore possible to obtain custom-designed compactly supported wavelets with required regularity, vanishing moments, shape, etc. In this work, we generalize the lifting scheme for the construction of compactly-supported biorthogonal M-band filters. As in the previous case, we used the flexibility of the scheme to exploit the degree of freedom left after satisfying the perfect-reconstruction conditions in order to obtain finite filters with some interesting properties, such as vanishing moments, symmetry, shape, etc., or that satisfy certain optimality requests required for particular applications. Moreover, for these lifted biorthogonal M-band filters, we give an analysis-synthesis algorithm which is more efficient than the standard algorithm realized with filters with similar compression capabilities.