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Audio Quality Enhancement at a Low-bit Rate Perceptual Audio Coding  

서정일 (한국전자통신연구원 방송미디어연구부)
서진수 (한국과학기술원 전자전산학과 전자공학)
홍진우 (한국전자통신연구원 방송미디어연구부)
강경옥 (한국전자통신연구원 방송미디어연구부)
Abstract
Low-titrate audio coding enables a number of Internet and mobile multimedia streaming service more efficiently. For the help of next-generation mobile telephone technologies and digital audio/video compression algorithm, we can enjoy the real-time multimedia contents on our mobile devices (cellular phone, PDA notebook, etc). But the limited available bandwidth of mobile communication network prohibits transmitting high-qualify AV contents. In addition, most bandwidth is assigned to transmit video contents. In this paper, we design a novel and simple method for reproducing high frequency components. The spectrum of high frequency components, which are lost by down-sampling, are modeled by the energy rate with low frequency band in Bark scale, and these values are multiplexed with conventional coded bitstream. At the decoder side, the high frequency components are reconstructed by duplicating with low frequency band spectrum at a rate of decoded energy rates. As a result of segmental SNR and MOS test, we convinced that our proposed method enhances the subjective sound quality only 10%∼20% additional bits. In addition, this proposed method can apply all kinds of frequency domain audio compression algorithms, such as MPEG-1/2, AAC, AC-3, and etc.
Keywords
MPEG-2 AAC; Perceptual audio Coding; Spectrum Reconstruction; Bark band; MPEG-2 AAC; segmental SNR;
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