Opens in a new tab

AES E-Library

← Back to search

Convention Paper

A Multichannel Audio Coding Algorithm for Inter-Channel Redundancy Removal

Authors: Yaroslavsky, Leonid; Vilermo, Miikka; Vaananen, Mauri; Wang, Ye

AES Convention 110 · Paper 5295 · May 2001

Abstract

This paper presents a novel lossless multichannel audio coding algorithm to remove inter-channel redundancy. We employ an Integer-to-Integer Discrete Cosine Transform (INT-DCT) to perform inter-channel decorrelation after quantization of Modified Discrete Cosine Transform (MDCT) coefficients of individual channels. When compared with a Karhunen-Loeve Transform (KLT) based approach our new method has three major advantages: 1) avoids quantization noise spreading to other channels; 2) computational simplicity; 3) uses less overhead information (a quantized covariance matrix or eigenvector is avoided in our algorithm), while having a similar decorrelation capability.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 110
AES Convention
110
Paper number
5295
Publication date
May 6, 2001
Session subject
Low-Bit Rate Audio Coding
Affiliation
Speech and Audio Systems Laboratory, Nokia Research Center, Tampere, Finland ; Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper