Perceptual audio coding of high quality audio signals is nowadays widely used. To reproduce the audio data, the bitstream is expanded into an uncompressed audio format by the decoding algorithm. As shown previously, it is feasible to recover the encoding compression parameters from the decoded audio signal and even translate a decoded audio signal back into its original bitstream representation. This technique is referred to as "inverse decoding" and has several interesting applications, including tandem-resistant re-encoding of audio signals. The paper illustrates practical results obtained by the first working implementation of an "Inverse Decoder" based on the popular MP3 coder. The performance of the algorithm is evaluated in terms of reconstruction precision and computational complexity. Finally, algorithmic issues are discussed.

Authors: Moehrs, Sascha; Herre, Jurgen; Geiger, Ralf
Affiliations: Fraunhofer IIS-A, Erlangen, Germany ; Fraunhofer AEMT, Ilmenau, Germany(See document for exact affiliation information.)
AES Convention: 112 (April 2002) Paper Number: 5576
Publication Date: April 1, 2002 Import into BibTeX
Subject: Low Bit-Rate Audio Coding
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