Overview of MPEG audio: Current and future standards for low-bit-rate audio coding

AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

Volumn 45, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 4-21

  Brandenburg, Karlheinz ^a,c,d,e,f   Bosi, Marina ^{b,e,f,g,h,i,j,k}  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS IIS   (Germany)

^b DOLBY LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^e IEEE   (United States)

^f IEEE Signal Processing Society ^*

^g National Conservatory of Music   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

ⁱ Inst Rech Coord Acoustique M   (France)

^j STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k AES San Francisco Section   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIO SYSTEMS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND REPRODUCTION; STANDARDS;

AUDIO CODING; MPEG AUDIO;

SIGNAL ENCODING;

EID: 0030784059     PISSN: 00047554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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