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Exploiting High-Level Music Structure for Lossless Audio Compression

Authors: Ghido, Florin

AES Convention 128 · Paper 8097 · May 2010

Abstract

We present a novel concept of "noncontiguous" audio segmentation by exploiting the high-level music structure. The existing lossless audio compressors working in asymmetrical mode divide the audio into quasi-stationary segments of variable length by recursive splitting (MPEG-4 ALS) or by dynamic programming (asymmetrical OptimFROG) before computing a set of linear prediction coefficients for each segment. Instead, we combine several variable length segments into a group and use a single set of linear prediction coefficients for each group. The optimal algorithm for combining has exponential complexity and we propose a quadratic time approximation algorithm. Integrated into asymmetrical OptimFROG, the proposed algorithm obtains up to 1.20% (on average 0.23%) compression improvements with no increase in decoder complexity.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 128
AES Convention
128
Paper number
8097
Publication date
May 6, 2010
Session subject
Audio Coding and Compression
Affiliation
Tampere University of Technology, Eampere, Finland (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper