Compression of High-Quality Audio Signals, Including Recent Methods Using Wavelet Packets

1996 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Sablatash ◽  
Todor Cooklev
Keyword(s):  
Wavelet Packets ◽  
Audio Signals ◽  
High Quality

scholarly journals Adaptive Variable Degree- Zero-Trees for Re-Encoding of Perceptually Quantized Wavelet Packet Transformed Audio and High-Quality Speech

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Omid Ghahabi ◽  
Mohammad Hassan Savoji
Keyword(s):  
Wavelet Packet ◽  
Low Complexity ◽  
Set Partitioning ◽  
Degree Zero ◽  
Variable Degree ◽  
Audio Signals ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Scalable Algorithm ◽  
Hierarchical Trees ◽  
Zero Tree

A fast, efficient, and scalable algorithm is proposed, in this paper, for re-encoding of perceptually quantized wavelet-packet transform (WPT) coefficients of audio and high quality speech and is called “adaptive variable degree- zero-trees” (AVDZ). The quantization process is carried out by taking into account some basic perceptual considerations and achieves good subjective quality with low complexity. The performance of the proposed AVDZ algorithm is compared with two other zero-tree-based schemes comprising (1) embedded zero-tree wavelet (EZW) and (2) the set partitioning in hierarchical trees (SPIHT). Since EZW and SPIHT are designed for image compression, some modifications are incorporated in these schemes for their better matching to audio signals. It is shown that the proposed modifications can improve their performance by about 15–25%. Furthermore, it is concluded that the proposed AVDZ algorithm outperforms these modified versions in terms of both output average bit-rates and computation times.

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