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Research on Open Source Encoding Technology for MPEG Unified Speech and Audio Coding

MPEG 통합 음성/오디오 코덱을 위한 오픈 소스 부호화 기술에 관한 연구

  • Song, Jeongook (School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University) ;
  • Lee, Joonil (LG electronic Inc.) ;
  • Kang, Hong-Goo (School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University)
  • Received : 2012.06.03
  • Published : 2013.01.25
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Abstract

Unified Speech and Audio Coding (USAC) is the speech/audio codec with the best quality, approved on Final Draft International Standard (FDIS) at MPEG meeting in 2011. Since MPEG conventionally standardizes only the decoder, it is not easy to study on the encoder technologies. Furthermore, Reference Model(RM) shows extremely poor performance. To solve these problems, the open source project(JAME) proposes the methods to make the improved performance of main encoder technologies in USAC. Especially, this paper introduces the encoder modules: the signal classifier for selective operation between two coders, the psychoacoustic model in frequency domain, and window transition technology. Finally, the results of verification test for FDIS and the performance of Common Encoder are appended.

통합 음성/오디오 부호화기 (Unified Speech and Audio Coding, USAC)는 2011년 MPEG에서 FDIS (Final Draft International Standard)를 승인받은 최고 성능의 통합 음성/오디오 부호화기이다. 전통적으로 MPEG에서는 복호화기 기술만 표준화하므로 인코더 기술에 대한 고찰이 쉽지 않을 뿐 아니라, 예제로 공개하는 인코더 (Reference Model, RM)의 경우에도 기본 아이디어만을 포함하고 있기 때문에 이를 사용할 경우 성능 저하가 매우 심각하다. 성능 열화는 매우 심각하다. 이러한 문제를 최소화하기 위해 오픈 소스 기반으로 진행되고 있는 프로젝트 JAME에서는 USAC에 적용된 핵심 인코더 기술의 성능을 최대화 할 수 있는 방법을 제안하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 입력 신호에 따라 두 코더가 선택적으로 동작되게 하는 신호 분류기와 심리 음향 모델을 기반으로 하는 주파수 부호화 기술, 그리고 전이 윈도우 기술 등의 주요 인코더 기술들에 대하여 소개한다. 또한 FDIS를 위한 verification test 결과와 Common Encoder의 성능 평가를 덧붙인다.

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