• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.28 no.1E
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• pp.29-34
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• 2009

MPEG4 High Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding (HE-AAC) and MPEG Surround are one of the most efficient combinations for low bit rate multi-channel audio coding. Based on the fact that these two codecs have identical quadrature mirror filter (QMF) analysis and synthesis structures, we propose a dual-domain connection scheme for the codecs. Specifically two time-domain connection methods are analyzed and compared to the QMF subband-domain connection method. Experimental results show that both the time-domain connection methods cause no subjective sound quality degradation compared to the QMF subband-domain connection method, which verifies that one can select either of them depending on application scenarios.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.28-31
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 음성 및 음악 모두에 대해 최고의 품질을 제공하는 최신 오디오 코덱인 USAC 을 DAB+에 적용하기 위한 전송 방안을 제안한다. 기존 DAB+는 AAC+ v2 로 불리는 HE-AAC v2 (High Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding version 2) 오디오 코덱을 사용하였다. 하지만 AAC+ v2 는 낮은 데이터 전송률에서 음악에서는 좋은 품질을 제공하나 음성에서는 상대적으로 품질이 떨어지는 단점이 있다. 반면 USAC 은 낮은 데이터 전송률에서 음악 및 음성에 모두 좋은 품질과 높은 압축 성능을 제공할 수 있는 최신 오디오 코덱 기술이다. USAC 의 성능을 최대한 보장하기 위해서는 DAB+와 달리 VBR 을 적용하는 효과적이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 USAC VBR 스트림을 DAB+에 전송하는 방안을 제안한다. 제안된 전송 방안을 적용할 경우 최적의 음악 및 음성 품질을 효율적으로 제공할 수가 있다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.66-74
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose new techniques that can improve the quality of AAC and SBR encoders comprised in low bitrate HE-AAC. To reduce the pre-echo artifacts often occurring for transient blocks in AAC, we propose an extended Temporal Noise Shaping (sTNS) in which the frequency range is selectively extended down to the low-frequency region. Also, for he high-frequency region being coded by SBR encoder, tones are identified through a sinusoidal modeling and their frequencies are adjusted within the QMF band in order to reduce the noise floor due to aliasing. Spectrograms of the decoded signals were compared and listening tests were conducted to evaluate the proposed algorithm. Results confirmed the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.8C
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• pp.822-829
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• 2009

This paper proposes a new method of improving the quality of High Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding (HE-AAC). HE-AAC encodes input source by allocating bits for each scalefactor bands appropriately according to human ear's psychoacoustic property. As a result, insufficient bits are assigned to the bands which have relatively low energy. This imbalance between different energy bands can cause decreasing of sound quality like musical noise. In the proposed system, a Linear Prediction (LP) module is combined with HE-AAC as a pre-processor to improve sound quality by even bits distribution. To apply accurate human being's psychoacoustic property, the psychoacoustic model uses Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) spectrum of original input signal to make masking threshold. In its implementation, masking threshold of psychoacoustic model is normalized using the LP spectral envelope in prior to quantization of the LP residual. Experimental result shows that, the proposed algorithm allocates bits appropriately for insufficient bits condition and improves the performance of HE-AAC.