This paper describes recent developments on the design of an advanced Audio Spectral Coder (ASC) that seeks: coding efficiency by combining source and perceptual audio coding techniques; bit stream semantic scalability by segmenting the audio signal into transients, sinusoids and noise; low delay coding by using a moderate transform size and no bit stream buffer; and embedded error robustness by not using interframe coding. The operation of ASC is explained, its performance is assessed using a few test results, and potential application areas are also addressed.

Author: Ferreira, Anibal J. S.
Affiliation: School of Engineering of the University of Porto / INESC Porto, Portugal
AES Convention: 116 (May 2004) Paper Number: 6166
Publication Date: May 1, 2004 Import into BibTeX
Subject: Low Bit-Rate Audio Coding
Permalink: https://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=12792

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