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Adaptive Design of the Preprocessing Stage for Stereo Lossless Audio Compression

Authors: Ghido, Florin; Tabus, Ioan

AES Convention 122 · Paper 7085 · May 2007

Abstract

We propose a novel lossless audio compression scheme, which combines stereo preprocessing with stereo prediction. We show that such a scheme provides improved asymmetrical compression at almost no complexity increase for decoder (compared with stereo prediction alone), or the same compression for lower decoder complexity. The stage of stereo prediction is preceded by a rotation-like channel transformation, which improves compression by requiring smaller inter-channel optimal prediction orders and by obtaining smaller magnitudes for prediction coefficients. For the OptimFROG-AS (asymmetric) lossless audio compressor using stereo prediction with orders 8/4 we obtained, on an audio corpus (in CD-Audio format) of size 51.6 GB, compression improvements up to 5.10%, on average 0.23%.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 122
AES Convention
122
Paper number
7085
Publication date
May 6, 2007
Session subject
Low Bit-Rate Audio Coding
Affiliation
Tampere University of Technology (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper