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Dolby TrueHD is a lossless and hierarchical audio coding format that not only enables compact bit-exact representation of the source multichannel audio signal, but also facilitates low complexity reconstruction of downmixes thereof. The dual objective is achieved by linear transformation of input channels into internal channels coded in the bitstream, via primitive matrices that are exactly invertible...
The Dolby Digital Plus (DDPlus) multichannel audio codec employs channel coupling for parsimonious transmission of high frequency components of the signal, wherein the transform coefficients of discrete channels beyond a coupling-begin frequency are transmitted as a mono-downmix. The decoder reconstructs individual channels by appropriate panning with frequency-banded gains. While channel coupling...
A novel scalable video coding (SVC) scheme is proposed for video transmission over loss networks, which builds on an estimation-theoretic (ET) framework for optimal prediction and error concealment, given all available information from both the current base layer and prior enhancement layer frames. It incorporates a recursive end-to-end distortion estimation technique, namely, the \imp{spectral coefficient-wise...
A novel estimation-theoretic (ET) approach is developed for optimal enhancement layer prediction, in spatially scalable video coding (SVC), which incorporates motion compensation at the enhancement layer, with both current and future information from the base layer. It is inspired by the early ET framework (originated in our group) for quality (SNR) scalability, which achieved optimal enhancement...
This paper focuses on prediction optimality in spatially scalable video coding. It is inspired by the earlier estimation-theoretic prediction framework developed by our group for quality (SNR) scalability, which achieved optimality by fully accounting for relevant information from the current base layer (e.g., quantization intervals) and the enhancement layer, to efficiently calculate the conditional...
Temporal prediction in standard video coding is performed in the spatial domain, where each pixel block is predicted from a motion-compensated pixel block in a previously reconstructed frame. Such prediction treats each pixel independently and ignores underlying spatial correlations. In contrast, this paper proposes a paradigm for motion-compensated prediction in the transform domain, that eliminates...
A novel scalable coding approach is proposed for video transmission over lossy networks, which builds on two estimation-theoretic (ET) paradigms previously developed by our group: (1) an ET approach to enhancement layer prediction in scalable video coding (ET-SVC) that optimally combines all available information from both the current base layer and prior enhancement layer frames, and (2) the spectral...
Error resilient video coding critically relies on the accuracy of end-to-end distortion estimation. An established solution, the recursive optimal per-pixel estimate (ROPE), is based on tracking the first and second moments of the decoder reconstructed pixels. This paper is focused on an alternative estimation approach, the spectral coefficient-wise optimal recursive estimate (SCORE), whose recursion...
End-to-end distortion estimation is critical to effective error-resilient video coding. The recursive optimal per-pixel estimate (ROPE) is a known approach to compute up to second moments of decoder-reconstructed pixels, and thereby optimally estimate the distortion. ROPE accurately accounts for encoding/decoding operations that are recursive in the pixel domain, and their interaction with packet...
MPEG-4 High-Definition Advanced Audio Coding (HD-AAC) enables scalable-to-lossless (SLS) audio coding with an Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) base layer, and fine-grained enhancements based on the MPEG SLS standard. While the AAC core offers better perceptual quality at lossy bit-rates, its inclusion has been observed to compromise the ultimate lossless compression performance as compared to the SLS `non-core'...
Current video coding schemes employ motion compensation to exploit the fact that the signal forms an auto-regressive process along the motion trajectory, and remove temporal redundancies with prior reconstructed samples via prediction. However, the decoder may, in principle, also exploit correlations with received encoding information of future frames. In contrast to current decoders that reconstruct...
Predictive coding eliminates redundancy due to correlations between the current and past signal samples, so that only the innovation, or prediction residual, needs to be encoded. However, the decoder may, in principle, also exploit correlations with future samples. Prior decoder enhancement work mainly applied a non-causal filter to smooth the regular decoder reconstruction. In this work we broaden...
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