In signal processing, the Kautz filter, named after William H. Kautz, is a fixed-pole traversal filter, published in 1954.
Like Laguerre filters, Kautz filters can be implemented using a cascade of all-pass filters, with a one-pole lowpass filter at each tap between the all-pass sections.
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