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A Study of Strategies for the Perceptual Coding of Audio Signals

Authors: Turgeon, A.; Soumagne, Joël; Mabilleau, P.; Morissette, S.; Paillard, B.

AES Convention 90 · Paper 3010 · February 1991

Abstract

The strategy which is usually used to take into account the masking properties of the ear for the coding of audio signals is to shape the spectrum of the noise introduced by the coding process, according to the frequency masking threshold. The paper describes an experiment which compares different strategies, and shows that, provided the frequency resolution is adequate, it is almost always better to shape the noise spectrum according to the shape of the signal spectrum. This result had been anticipated by the behavior of an auditory model developed by our group.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 90
AES Convention
90
Paper number
3010
Publication date
February 6, 1991
Session subject
Digital Data Compression and Related Topics
Affiliation
University of Sherbrooke, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Electrical Engineering Dept., Sherbrooke, Canada (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper