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Convention Paper

Audio Coding based on Integer Transforms

Authors: Geiger, Ralf; Sporer, Thomas; Koller, Jurgen; Brandenburg, Karlheinz

AES Convention 111 · Paper 5471 · November 2001

Abstract

Most of the current audio coding schemes use transforms like the Modified Discrete Cosine Transform (MDCT) to calculate a blockwise frequency representation of the audio signal. Since these transforms usually produce oating point values even for integer input samples, a quantization process is necessary to achieve a reduction of data rate. This paper presents a new transform with perfect reconstruction that produces integer output values. The transform is called IntMDCT and is derived from the MDCT preserving most of its attractive properties. It provides a good spectral representation of the audio signal, critical sampling and overlapping of blocks. A lossless audio coding scheme may be built by simply cascading IntMDCT with an entropy coding scheme.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 111
AES Convention
111
Paper number
5471
Publication date
November 6, 2001
Session subject
Signal Processing
Affiliation
Fraunhofer Institut fur Integrierte Schaltungen, Arbeitsgruppe fur Elektronische Medientechnologie ; Ilmenau Technical University Ilmenau, Germany (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper