On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Bob McGwier <[email protected]> wrote:


> Let [B1, B2, B3, B4, ... BN]  be powers of five adjacent bins.
>
> Put them in rank order
>
> [R1, R2, R3, R4,  ... RN]
>
> If N is even,  the rank order mean is (R_(N/2) + R_/(N/2 +1))*0.5.
> If N is odd,  the rank order mean is R_(N/2 +0.5)


Here the rank-order mean *is* the median: the quantile value for #quantiles
= 2.


> But I still see a problem:
>
> I suggest that in order to prevent "scalloping" of a swept tone across this
> algorithm or any other like it,  that some "bin"  in the lossy compression
> set of bins must ALWAYS be forced to take on the large of the power spectrum
> otherwise your alternative min/max/min/max might jump up and down as you
> sweep a tone through it.  Or did I miss something?


Most surely. Why not some kind of VQ-codebook based on deltas between
successive frames? Apart from the amount of the research required to build
it, of course...

Neural net fans invited to take this on also! ;-)

Frank

-- 
For an omnipotent and omniscient being, God has made some really lousy
earthly staffing decisions. -- John Cole
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