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Scalable Perceptual and Lossless Audio Coding Based on MPEG-4 AAC

Authors: Geiger, Ralf; Schuller, Gerald; Herre, Jürgen; Sperschneider, Ralph; Sporer, Thomas

AES Convention 115 · Paper 5868 · October 2003

Abstract

This paper presents a scalable lossless enhancement of MPEG-4 Advanced Audio Coding (AAC). Scalability is achieved in the frequency domain using the Integer Modified Discrete Cosine Transform (IntMDCT), which is an integer approximation of the MDCT providing perfect reconstruction. With this transform, and only minor extension of the bitstream syntax, the MPEG-4 AAC Scalable codec can be extended to a lossless operation. The system provides bit-exact reconstruction of the input signal independent of the implementation accuracy of the AAC core coder. Furthermore, scalability in sampling rate and reconstruction word length is supported.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 115
AES Convention
115
Paper number
5868
Publication date
October 6, 2003
Session subject
Low Bit-Rate Audio coding
Affiliation
Fraunhofer IIS AEMT, Ilmenau, Germany ; Fraunhofer IIS, Erlangen, Germany (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper