A method to improve the PSNR of a perceptual audio coder is presented. It is based on the use of noise estimator at the decoder side to relate the quantization parameters and the quantization error. The quartic equation established contains two real roots, of which one of them is the desired spectral value. This value contains lesser quantization error compared to the de-quantized spectral value of a normal decoder. This leads to an improvement of up to 12 dB in SNR without significant increase in the decoder complexity.

Authors: Kurniawati, Evelyn; Lau, Chiew Tong; Premkumar, Benjamin; George, Sapna; Absar, Javed
Affiliations: Nanyang Technological University, SCE-PDCC, Singapore ; ST Microelectronics Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd., Singapore(See document for exact affiliation information.)
AES Convention: 116 (May 2004) Paper Number: 6177
Publication Date: May 1, 2004 Import into BibTeX
Subject: Low Bit-Rate Audio Coding
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