Signal Processing with Lapped Transforms
Signal Processing with Lapped Transforms
Fast Adaptive Encoder for Bi-Level Images
DCC '01 Proceedings of the Data Compression Conference
Scalable audio coding using the nonuniform modulated complex lapped transform
ICASSP '01 Proceedings of the Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2001. on IEEE International Conference - Volume 05
Rate-distortion optimized streaming of packetized media
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
An embedded still image coder with rate-distortion optimization
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
High performance scalable image compression with EBCOT
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
A new, fast, and efficient image codec based on set partitioning in hierarchical trees
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
A framework for robust and scalable audio streaming
Proceedings of the 12th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia
Fixed quality layered audio based on scalable lossless coding
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia - Special section on communities and media computing
Fine-grain scalable audio coding based on envelope restoration and the SPIHT algorithm
DSP'09 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Digital Signal Processing
Switchable bit-plane coding for high-definition advanced audio coding
MMM'07 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Multimedia Modeling - Volume Part I
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An embedded audio coder (EAC) is proposed with compression performance rivals the best available non-scalable audio coder. The key technology that empowers the EAC with high performance is the implicit auditory masking. Unlike the common practice, where an auditory masking threshold is derived from the input audio signal, transmitted to the decoder and used to quantize (modify) the transform coefficients; the EAC integrates the auditory masking process into the embedded entropy coding. The auditory masking threshold is derived from the encoded coefficients and used to change the order of coding. There is no need to store or send the auditory masking threshold in the EAC. By eliminating the overhead of the auditory mask, EAC greatly improves the compression efficiency, especially at low bitrate. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that the EAC coder substantially outperforms existing scalable audio coders and audio compression standards (MP3 and MPEG-4), and rivals the best available commercial audio coder. Yet the EAC compressed bitstream is fully scalable, in term of the coding bitrate, number of audio channels and audio sampling rate.