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A Complexity Reduction Method of MPEG-4 Audio Lossless Coding Encoder by Using the Joint Coding Based on Cross Correlation of Residual

여기신호의 상관관계 기반 joint coding을 이용한 MPEG-4 audio lossless coding 인코더 복잡도 감소 방법

  • Cho, Choong-Sang (Korea Electronics Technology Institute, Multimedia IP research center) ;
  • Kim, Je-Woo (Korea Electronics Technology Institute, Multimedia IP research center) ;
  • Choi, Byeong-Ho (Korea Electronics Technology Institute, Multimedia IP research center)
  • 조충상 (전자부품연구원 멀티미디어IP 연구센터) ;
  • 김제우 (전자부품연구원 멀티미디어IP 연구센터) ;
  • 최병호 (전자부품연구원 멀티미디어IP 연구센터)
  • Received : 2009.11.05
  • Published : 2010.05.25
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Abstract

Portable multi-media products which can service the highest audio-quality by using lossless audio codec has been released and the international lossless codecs, MPEG-4 audio lossless coding(ALS) and MPEG-4 scalable lossless coding(SLS), were standardized by MPEG in 2006. The simple profile of MPEG-4 ALS, it supports up to stereo, was defined by MPEG in 2009. The lossless audio codec should have low-complexity in stereo to be widely used in portable multi-media products. But the previous researches of MPEG-4 ALS have focused on an improvement of compression ratio, a complexity reduction in multi-channels coding, and a selection of linear prediction coefficients(LPCs) order. In this paper, the complexity and compression ratio of MPEG-4 ALS encoder is analyzed in simple profile of MPEG-4 ALS, the method to reduce a complexity of MPEG-4 ALS encoder is proposed. Based on an analysis of complexity of MPEG-4 ALS encoder, the complexity of short-term prediction filter of MPEG-4 ALS encoder is reduced by using the low-complexity filter that is proposed in previous research to reduce the complexity of MPEG-4 ALS decoder. Also, we propose a joint coding decision method, it reduces the complexity and keeps the compression ratio of MPEG-4 ALS encoder. In proposed method, the operation of joint coding is decided based on the relation between cross-correlation of residual and compression ratio of joint coding. The performance of MPEG-4 ALS encoder that has the method and low-complexity filter is evaluated by using the MPEG-4 ALS conformance test file and normal music files. The complexity of MPEG-4 ALS encoder is reduced by about 24% by comparing with MPEG-4 ALS reference encoder, while the compression ratio by the proposed method is comparable to MPEG-4 ALS reference encoder.

오디오 신호를 무손실 압축하여 휴대용 멀티미디어 기기에서 최고의 오디오 품질을 제공하는 기기들이 등장하고 있으며, 무손실 오디오 압축을 위한 기술에서는 2006년 MPEG-4 audio lessless coding(ALS)와 MPEG-4 scalable lossless coding(SLS)가 국제 표준으로 채택 되었다. 2009년에는 MPEG에서 최대 스테레오 음원까지만 지원하는 MPEG-4 ALS simple profile을 정의하였다. 표준화된 무손실 오디오 코덱이 휴대용 멀티미디어 기기에서 널리 이용되기 위해서는 휴대용 멀티미디어 기기에서 가장 널리 쓰이는 스테레오 조건에서 낮은 복잡도를 보여야 한다. 하지만 기존 연구에서는 MPEG-4 ALS의 압축률을 향상시키거나, 혹은 다채널 환경에서의 복잡도를 개선하기 위한 연구들이 주로 이루어졌다. 본 논문에서는 MPEG-4 ALS 인코더의 복잡도와 압축률을 분석하고, 이를 바탕으로 MPEG-4 ALS simple profile 조건에서 MPEG-4 ALS 인코더의 복잡도를 개선하기 위한 방법을 제안한다. 분석 결과 MPEG-4 ALS 인코더의 analysis 블록에서 전체 복잡도의 75% 발생하므로, 기존의 연구에서 개발된 저 복잡도 필터를 인코더에 적용하여 복잡도를 감소시키며, joint coding의 압축 효율과 여기 신호의 상호상관계수의 관계를 기반으로 joint coding 결정 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법과 저 복잡도 필터가 포함된 MPEG-4 ALS 인코더의 성능은 MPEG-4 conformance test 파일과 일반 음악 파일을 이용하여 복잡도 및 압축률로써 평가된다. 실험 결과 제안된 방법이 적용되었을 경우 압축률은 유사하면서 인코더 복잡도가 24% 감소한다. 이를 통해 본 논문에서 제안된 방법이 MPEG-4 ALS 인코더의 복잡도 감소에 탁월한 성능을 가짐을 보였다.

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