Entropy coder for audio signals

Grzegorz Ulacha, Ryszard Stasiński

Abstract


In the paper an effective entropy coder designed for coding of prediction errors of audio signals is presented. The coder is implemented inside a greater structure which signal modeling part is a lossless coding backward adaptation algorithm consisting of cascaded OLS and NLMS sections is presented. The technique performance is compared to that of 4 other lossless codecs, including MPEG-4 ALS one, and it is shown that indeed, the new method is the best one. The entropy coder is an advanced context adaptive Golomb one followed by two context adaptive arithmetic coders.

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