Adaptive Bit-Plane Scanning for Scalable Audio

MPEG-4 scalable lossless (SLS) coding is a unified solution for demands in high compression perceptual audio and high quality lossless audio. It provides a fine-grain scalable extension to the MPEG-4 advanced audio coding (AAC) perceptual audio coder up to fully lossless reconstruction. It is observed that the quality of SLS coded audio is still far from optimal when the core bitrate is low. With this observation, an adaptive bit-plane scanning (ABPS) method is proposed in this paper. In ABPS, the bit-plane scanning order is adaptive to the energy distribution of the signal to be coded. The results show that with ABPS, the perceptual quality of the audio under low core bitrate scenario is significantly improved without any extra payload.

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