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Advances in Parametric Coding for High-Quality Audio

Authors: Oomen, Werner; Schuijers, Erik; den Brinker, Bert; Breebaart, Jeroen

AES Convention 114 · Paper 5852 · March 2003

Abstract

In the course of the 'MPEG-4 Extension 2' standardisation process, a parametric coding scheme is under development. This coding scheme is based on the notion that any audio signal can be dissected into three objects: transient, sinusoids and noise. Each of these objects allows for an efficient parametric representation. The parametric coder is targeting medium to high quality for CD quality material, at bit-rates ranging from 24 ' 40 kbit/s stereo. Recently, improvements have been made to increase the overall performance of the coder. One of these improvements consists of an improved model for the noise object. Furthermore, a very efficient representation for the stereo image has been defined. In this paper, all recent improvements will be discussed.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 114
AES Convention
114
Paper number
5852
Publication date
March 6, 2003
Session subject
Low Bit-Rate Coding
Affiliation
Philips Digital Systems Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands ; Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper