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Lossless Coding of Audio Spectral Coefficients Using Selective Bit-Plane Coding  

Yoo, Seung-Kwan (광운대학교 VIA 멀티미디어 센터)
Park, Ho-Chong (광운대학교 VIA 멀티미디어 센터)
Oh, Seoung-Jun (광운대학교 VIA 멀티미디어 센터)
Ahn, Chang-Beom (광운대학교 VIA 멀티미디어 센터)
Sim, Dong-Gyu (광운대학교 VIA 멀티미디어 센터)
Beak, Seung-Kwon (ETRI 방송미디어 연구그룹)
Kang, Kyoung-Ok (ETRI 방송미디어 연구그룹)
Abstract
In this paper, new lossless coding method of spectral coefficients for audio codec is proposed. Conventional lossless coder uses Huffman coding utilizing the statistical characteristics of spectral coefficients, but does not provide the high coding efficiency due to its simple structure. To solve this limitation, new lossless coding scheme with better performance is proposed that consists of bit-plane transform and run-length coding. In the proposed scheme, the spectral coefficients are first transformed by bit-plane into 1-D bit-stream with better correlative properties, which is then coded intorun-length and is finally Huffman coded. In addition, the coding performance is further increased by applying the proposed bit-plane coding selectively to each group, after the entire frequency is divided into 3 groups. The performance of proposed coding scheme is measured in terms of theoretical number of bits based on the entropy, and shows at most 6% enhancement compared to that of conventional lossless coder used in AAC audio codec.
Keywords
Audio Codec; Lossless Coding; Bit Plane Coding; Huffman Coding;
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