Spatial Audio Object Coding (SAOC) - The upcoming MPEG standard on parametric object based audio coding

Audio Engineering Society - 124th Audio Engineering Society Convention 2008

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 613-627

  Engdegård, Jonas ^a   Resch, Barbara ^a   Falch, Cornelia ^b   Hellmuth, Oliver ^b   Hilpert, Johannes ^b   Hoelzer, Andreas ^b   Terentiev, Leonid ^b   Breebaart, Jeroen ^c   Koppens, Jeroen ^c   Schuijers, Erik ^c   Oomen, Werner ^c  

^a Dolby Sweden AB   (Sweden)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS IIS   (Germany)

^c PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIO CODING; CURRENT STATUS; MPEG SURROUND; OBJECT BASED; OBJECT CODING; OBJECTS-BASED; OPERATIONAL MODES; RECENT TRENDS; REFERENCE MODELS; SPATIAL AUDIO; STANDARDIZATION PROCESS;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STANDARDIZATION;

MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS;

EID: 84866508058     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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