Perceptually - Weighted audio coding that scales to extremely low bitrates

Data Compression Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 382-391

  Kandadai, Srivatsan ^a   Creusere, Charles D ^a  

^a New Mexico State Univ   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIO CODERS; AUDIO CODING; BIT RATES; LOW BIT RATE; MUSIC ON DEMAND; PERCEPTUAL QUALITY; SCALABLE BIT-STREAMS; VQ ALGORITHM;

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS;

DATA COMPRESSION;

EID: 65749111064     PISSN: 10680314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DCC.2006.65     Document Type: Conference Paper

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