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Variable Bit Quantization for Virtual Source Location Information in Spatial Audio Coding

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Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2005 (PCM 2005)

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In [1,2,3], Binaural Cue Coding (BCC) was introduced for multi-channel spatial rendering for MPEG 4 – SAC (Spatial Audio Coding) to reduce bitrate of multi-channel audio signal. In [4,5], Virtual Source Location Information (VSLI) was introduced to replace Inter-Channel Level Difference, the most determinant parameter in BCC system. Here, Variable Bit Quantization (VBQ) for VSLI is proposed to reduce bitrate at the quantization block in VSLI-based BCC systems removing statistically invalid range.

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Chon, S.B., Choi, I.Y., Seo, J., Sung, KM. (2005). Variable Bit Quantization for Virtual Source Location Information in Spatial Audio Coding. In: Ho, YS., Kim, H.J. (eds) Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2005. PCM 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3767. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11581772_62

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