Audio coding with signal adaptive filterbanks

In this paper we present a high quality audio coding system based on a novel nonuniform modulated filterbank coupled with time-varying cosine modulated filterbanks in a cascade architecture. The system makes use of psychoacoustic thresholds in a natural way to adapt the resolution of the filterbank to achieve high coding gain on a wide range of signal types. Results show that the system provides excellent quality at 64 kb/s and good quality at 48 kb/s for monophonic coding.

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