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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  

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)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP / v.47, no.3, 2010 , pp. 87-95 More about this Journal
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.
Keywords
MPEG-4 ALS; Joint coding; Cross correlation; Low-complexity; Lossless audio coding;
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