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Jointly Optimal Time Segmentation, Distribution and Quantisation for Sinusoidal Audio Coding

Authors: Heusdens, Richard; Jensen, Jesper; Korten, Pim

AES Convention 119 · Paper 6596 · October 2005

Abstract

In this paper we propose a rate-distortion optimal algorithm for sinusoidal coding of audio and speech. The algorithm determines for a pre-specified target bit-rate the optimal (variable-length) time segmentation, the optimal distribution of sinusoidal components over the segments and the optimal (scalar) quantisers for quantising the sinusoid parameters amplitude, phase and frequency. The optimisation is done by jointly optimising the segment lengths, number of sinusoids and quantisers using high-resolution quantisation theory and dynamic programming techniques, which makes it possible to execute the algorithm in polynomial time. A particular advantage of the proposed method is that, given a target bit-rate, it solves the problem of finding the optimal balance between total number of sinusoids and number of bits per sinusoid.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 119
AES Convention
119
Paper number
6596
Publication date
October 6, 2005
Session subject
Audio Coding
Affiliation
Delft University of Technology (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper