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Enhanced Performance in the Functionality of Fine Grain Scalability

Authors: Choo, KiHyun; Kim, JungHoe; Oh, Eunmi; Son, ChangYong

AES Convention 119 · Paper 6597 · October 2005

Abstract

The purpose is to take advantage of the characteristics of arithmetic decoding and then to improve coding efficiency of codecs that provide the functionality of fine-grain scalability. The smart arithmetic decoding algorithm exploits the fact that a decoding buffer still contains meaningful information for arithmetic decoding even if we terminate decoding when there is no bit to be fed into the buffer. We tested the effect of the symbols additionally decoded from truncated MPEG-4 BSAC and MPEG-4 scalable lossless audio coding (SLS) bitstreams. On average, approximately additional 41 symbols and 13 symbols are uniquely decodable per frame in MPEG-4 BASC and MPEG-4 SLS respectively. The experimental results show that much less spectral difference and higher SNR with the smart arithmetic decoding. This additional “compression” can be effective when transmitting truncated bitstreams at lower bitrates.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 119
AES Convention
119
Paper number
6597
Publication date
October 6, 2005
Session subject
Audio Coding
Affiliation
Samsung AIT (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper