A backward-compatible multichannel audio codec

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 83-93

  Hotho, Gerard ^a   Villemoes, Lars F ^b   Breebaart, Jeroen ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b Coding Technologies ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

Audio coding; Auditory system; Codecs; Digital audio broadcasting; Estimation; Prediction; Redundancy; Signal processing

Indexed keywords

AUDIO CODING; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CODECS; DIGITAL AUDIO BROADCASTING; PREDICTION;

DECODING; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS; RADIO BROADCASTING; REDUNDANCY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EID: 43949085781     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2007.910768     Document Type: Article

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