Background, concept, and architecture for the recent MPEG surround standard on multichannel audio compression

AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 331-351

  Breebaart, Jeroen ^a   Hotho, Gerard ^a   Koppens, Jeroen ^a   Schuijers, Erik ^a   Oomen, Werner ^a   van de Par, Steven ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; AUDIO SYSTEMS; MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS; SIGNAL ENCODING;

AUDIO CODING; AUDIO TRANSMISSION; MULTICHANNEL AUDIO COMPRESSION; SURROUND SYSTEM;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 34249997892     PISSN: 15494950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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