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Convention Paper

Low Complexity Parametric Stereo Coding

Authors: Schuijers, Erik; Breebaart, Jeroen; Purnhagen, Heiko; Engdegard, Jonas

AES Convention 116 · Paper 6073 · May 2004

Abstract

Parametric stereo coding is a technique to efficiently code a stereo audio signal as a monaural signal plus a small
amount of stereo parameters. The monaural signal can be encoded using any audio coder. The stereo parameters can be embedded in the ancillary part of the mono bit stream creating backwards mono compatibility. In the decoder, first the monaural signal is decoded after which the stereo signal is reconstructed from the stereo parameters. In this paper, a low complexity decoder solution is described based on complex-modulated filter banks. Combinations of the
parametric stereo decoder with both a parametric coding scheme and with aacPlus will be elucidated.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 116
AES Convention
116
Paper number
6073
Publication date
May 6, 2004
Session subject
Spatial Audio Coding
Affiliation
Philips Digital Systems Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands ; Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands ; Coding Technologies, Stockholm, Sweden (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper