The paper discusses the stereo and multichannel coding methods introduced into MPEG-2 NBC. The first method is pairwise stereo coding using both mid/side (M/S) and intensity stereo (IS) coding operating on individual scale-factor bands. Further accommodations for multichannel audio include the extension of intensity stereo to multiple channels, identification of symmetric pairs of audio signals in the bit stream, and explicit noise coding for down-mix channels.

Authors: Johnston, James D.; Herre, Jürgen; Davis, Mark; Gbur, Uwe
Affiliations: AT&T Labs, Murray Hill, NJ ; Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ ; Dolby Laboratories, Inc., San Francisco, CA ; Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, Erlangen, Germany(See document for exact affiliation information.)
AES Convention: 101 (November 1996) Paper Number: 4383
Publication Date: November 1, 1996 Import into BibTeX
Subject: Low Bit-Rate Audio Coding
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