MPEG spatial audio object coding-The ISO/MPEG standard for efficient coding of interactive audio scenes

AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 655-673

  Herre, Jürgen ^a,d,g   Purnhagen, Heiko ^e   Koppens, Jeroen ^h   Hellmuth, Oliver ^b   Engdegård, Jonas ^f   Hilpert, Johannes ^b   Villemoes, Lars ^e   Terentiv, Leon ^b   Falch, Cornelia ^c   Hölzer, Andreas ^b   Valero, Maŕlia Luis ^b   Resch, Barbara ^e   Mundt, Harald ^h   Oh, Hyen O ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS IIS   (Germany)

^c MED EL GmbH   (Austria)

^d Dolby Sweden AB   (Sweden)

^e MICROSOFT   (United States)

^f PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^g Dolby Germany GmbH   (Germany)

^h LG Electronics Inc   (South Korea)

ⁱ GOODDAY InventandPatent LAB   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIO SCENES; BIT RATES; OBJECT BASED; OBJECT CODING; OPERATION MODE; PARAMETRIC CODING; SPATIAL AUDIO; STANDARDIZATION PROCESS; STEREO SOUND; TYPICAL APPLICATION; VERIFICATION TESTS; WORK ITEMS;

AUDIO ACOUSTICS; MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS; STANDARDIZATION;

AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 84868516138     PISSN: 15494950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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