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Convention Paper

Krasner’s Audio Coder Revisited

Authors: Angus, Jamie; Ball, Chris; Peeters, Thomas; Williams, Rowan

AES Convention 126 · Paper 7715 · May 2009

Abstract

An audio compression encoder and decoder system based on Krasner’s work was implemented. An improved Quadrature Mirror Filter tree, which more closely approximates modern critical band measurements, splits the input signal into sub bands that are encoded using both adaptive quantisation and entropy coding. The uniform adaptive quantisation scheme developed by Jayant was implemented and enhanced through the addition of non-uniform quantisation steps and look ahead. The complete codecs are evaluated using the perceptual audio evaluation algorithm PEAQ and their performance compared to equivalent MPEG-1 Layer III files. Initial, limited, tests reveal that the proposed codecs can score Objective Difference Grades close to or even better than MPEG-1 Layer III files encoded at a similar bit rate.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 126
AES Convention
126
Paper number
7715
Publication date
May 6, 2009
Session subject
Audio Coding
Affiliation
University of Salford, Salford, Greater Manchester, UK (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper