High-Fidelity Multichannel Audio Coding. Eurasip Book Series on Signal Processing and Communications, Volume 2. (Electronic book text, 2nd)

This invaluable monograph addresses the specific needs ofaudio-engineering students and researchers who are either learningabout the topic or using it as a reference book on multichannelaudio compression. This book covers a wide range of knowledge onperceptual audio coding, from basic digital signal processing anddata compression techniques to advanced audio coding standards andinnovate coding tools. It is the only book available on the marketthat solely focuses on the principles of high-quality audio codecdesign for multichannel sound sources. This book includes threeparts. The first part covers the basic topics on audiocompression, such as quantization, entropy coding, psychoacousticmodel, and sound quality assessment. The second part of the bookhighlights the current most prevalent low-bit-ratehigh-performance audio coding standards-MPEG-4 audio. Morespace is given to the audio standards that are capable ofsupporting multichannel signals, that is, MPEG advance audiocoding (AAC), including the original MPEG-2 AAC technology, additional MPEG-4 toolsets, and the most recent aacPlus standard.The third part of this book introduces several innovatemultichannel audio coding tools, which have been demonstrated tofurther improve the coding performance and expand the availablefunctionalities of MPEG AAC, and is more suitable for graduatestudents and researchers in the advanced level. Dai Tracy Yang iscurrently Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Chris Kyriakakis isAssociated Professor, and C.-C. Jay Kuo is Professor, allaffiliated with the Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) at theUniversity of Southern California