Binaural Cue Coding - Part I: Psychoacoustic Fundamentals and Design Principles

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 509-519

  Baumgarte, Frank ^a   Faller, Christof ^a  

^a AGERE SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Audio coding; Auditory filter bank; Auditory scene synthesis; Binaural source localization; Coding of binaural spatial cues; Spatial rendering

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DECODING; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

AUDIO CODING; BINAURAL CUE CODING; SPATIAL RENDERING;

AUDIO ACOUSTICS;

EID: 0348129457     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2003.818109     Document Type: Article

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