Real-time perception-based clipping of audio signals using convex optimization

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2657-2671

  Defraene, Bruno ^a   Van Waterschoot, Toon ^a   Ferreau, Hans Joachim ^a   Diehl, Moritz ^a   Moonen, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Audio signal processing; clipping; convex optimization; psychoacoustics; real time

Indexed keywords

AUDIO APPLICATIONS; AUDIO QUALITY; AUDIO SIGNAL; CLIPPING; CLIPPING ALGORITHMS; CLIPPING TECHNIQUES; CONVEX OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL FRAMEWORKS; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY APPROACH; OPTIMIZATION CRITERIA; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; PROCESSING OPERATIONS; PSYCHOACOUSTIC MODEL; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REAL-TIME; THEORETICAL COMPLEXITY; TIME FRAME;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING; OPTIMIZATION;

CONVEX OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84867149282     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2012.2210875     Document Type: Article

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