Spatial Audio Processing; Contents; Author Biographies; Foreword; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Background; 3 Spatial Hearing; 4 Spatial Audio Coding; 5 Parametric Stereo; 6 MPEG Surround; 7 Binaural Cues for a Single Sound Source; 8 Binaural Cues for Multiple Sound Sources; 9 Audio Coding with Mixing Flexibility at the Decoder Side; 10 Multi-loudspeaker Playback of Stereo Signals; Frequently Used Terms, Abbreviations and Notation; Bibliography; Index
Summary
This book collects a wealth of information about spatial audio coding into one comprehensible volume. It is a thorough reference to the 3GPP and MPEG Parametric Stereo standards and the MPEG Surround multi-channel audio coding standard. It describes key developments in coding techniques, which is an important factor in the optimization of advanced entertainment, communications and signal processing applications. Until recently, technologies for coding audio signals, such as redundancy reduction and sophisticated source and receiver models did not incorporate spatial characteristics of source a
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-206) and index
