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New results in low bitrate audio coding using a combined harmonic-wavelet representation

  • Queensland University of Technology

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new combined harmonic-wavelet representation for audio where a harmonic analysis-synthesis scheme is used, first, to approximate each audio frame as a sum of several sinusoids. Then, the difference between the original signal and the reconstructed harmonic signal is analyzed using a wavelet filtering scheme. After each step (harmonic analysis & wavelet filtering), parameters are quantized and encoded. Compared to previously proposed methods, our audio coder uses different harmonic analysis-synthesis and wavelet filtering schemes. We use the Total Least Squares (TLS)-Prony algorithm for the harmonic analysis-scheme, and an M-band wavelet transform for analyzing the residual. Altogether, our proposed coder is capable of delivering excellent audio signal quality at encoder bitrates of 60-70 kb/s.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)351-354
Number of pages4
JournalProceedings - ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
Volume1
StatePublished - 1997
Externally publishedYes
EventProceedings of the 1997 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP. Part 1 (of 5) - Munich, Ger
Duration: 21 Apr 199724 Apr 1997

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