Frequency estimation based on adjacent DFT bins

This paper presents a method to derive efficient frequency estimators from the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) of the signal. These estimators are very similar to the phase-based Discrete Fourier Spectrum (DFS) interpolators but have the advantage to allow any type of analysis window (and especially non-rectangular windows). As a consequence, it leads to better estimations in the case of a complex tone (cisoid) perturbed by other cisoids. Overall, our best estimator leads to results similar to those of phase vocoder and reassignment estimators but at a lower complexity, since it is based on a single Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) computation.