Understanding perceptual distortion in MPEG scalable audio coding

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 422-431

  Creusere, Charles D ^a  

^a New Mexico State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Audio analysis; Audio coding; Audio quality metrics; Objective quality assessment; Perceptual distortion; Scalable coding

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MOTION PICTURES; MULTICASTING; SPEECH PROCESSING; STANDARDIZATION; TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY;

AUDIO ANALYSIS; AUDIO CODING; AUDIO QUALITY METRICS; OBJECTIVE QUALITY ASSESSMENT; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; SCALABLE CODING;

SPEECH CODING;

EID: 18744381003     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2005.845817     Document Type: Article

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