Spatial Audio Processing: MPEG Surround and Other Applications

Spatial Audio Processing: MPEG Surround and Other Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-209

  Breebaart, Jeroen ^a   Faller, Christof ^b  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIO ACOUSTICS; AUDIO SYSTEMS; CODES (SYMBOLS); FACSIMILE; MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS; SOUND REPRODUCTION; SPEECH PROCESSING; STUDENTS;

HEAD RELATED TRANSFER FUNCTION; HIGHER COMPRESSION RATIOS; MULTI-CHANNEL AUDIO CODING; REDUNDANCY REDUCTIONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING APPLICATIONS; SPATIAL AUDIO CODING; SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS; WEALTH OF INFORMATION;

AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 84948106265     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470723494     Document Type: Book

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