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Convention Paper

Perceptual and Near-Lossless Audio Coding Based on a Signal-Adaptive Wavelet Filterbank

Authors: Erne, Markus; Moschytz, G. S.

AES Convention 106 · Paper 4934 · May 1999

Abstract

This paper presents a new approach of a signal-adaptive wavelet filterbank. The system makes use of a wavelet-packet transform, offering a completely flexible time-frequency tiling. Boundary effects can be avoided by using overlapping blocks of samples and therefore switching bases is possible at every tree-level without affecting other subbands. The filterbank can be switched based on either perceptual or rate-distortion criteria. The paper motivates the relation between compression and non-linear approximation theory and highlights the advantages of Wavelet-based compression schemes.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 106
AES Convention
106
Paper number
4934
Publication date
May 6, 1999
Session subject
Audio Coding
Affiliation
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper