Fraunhofer-gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.v.

Dolby International Ab

Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Agere Systems Inc.

Voiceage Corporation

Coding Technologies Ab

Dolby Sweden Ab

Dolby Sweden Ag

Johannes Hilpert

Andreas Hoelzer

Juergen Herre

Achim Kuntz

Christian Ertel

Christian Helmrich

Nikolaus Rettelbach

Stefan Geyersberger

Julien Robilliard

Bernhard Grill

Matthias Neusinger

Sascha Dick

Sascha Disch

Markus Multrus

Stefan Bayer

Harald Popp

Jan Plogsties

Christian Borss

Guillaume Fuchs

Max Neuendorf

Ralf Geiger

Ulrich Kraemer

Bernd Edler

Redwan Salami

Bruno Bessette

Philippe Gournay

Roch Lefebvre

Jimmy Lapierre

Claus Spenger

Florian Schuh

Heiko Purnhagen

Jonas Engdegard

Oliver Hellmuth

Ralph Sperschneider

Jürgen Herre

Jeremie Lecomte

Michael Kratschmer

Karsten Linzmeier

Cornelia Falch

Jérémie Lecomte

Fabian Kuech

Michael Fischer

Maria Luis Valero

Simone Fueg

Leonid Terentiev

Lars Villemoes

Andreas Silzle

Richard Fueg

Tobias Schwegler

Frederik Nagel

Manfred Lutzky

Marc Gayer

Adrian Murtaza

Alexander Adami

Hanne Stenzel

Andreas Hölzer

Christof Faller

Konstantin Schmidt

Leon Terentiv

Harald Mundt

Karlheinz Brandenburg

Simone Neukam

Jeroen Dirk Breebaart

Heinz Gerh&auml;user

J&uuml;rgen Herre

Rainer Buchta

Julien Robillard

Kristofer Kjoerling

Dirk Jeroen Breebaart

Gerald Schuller

Pontus Carlsson

Michael Schug

Jeroen Koppens

Stefan Wabnik

Markus Lohwasser

Wolfgang Jaegers

Falko Ridderbusch

Stephan Wilde

Bernhard Neugebauer

Jens Hirschfeld

Albert Heuberger

Barbara Resch

Thorsten Kastner

Yoshikazu Yokotani

Erik Schuijers

Werner Oomen

Michael Werner

Jonas Röden

Claus-Christian Spenger

Raif Geiger

Maria L Valero

Reinfried Bartholomaeus

Maria Luis-Valero

Steven Van De Par

Bernard Grill

Stefam Geyersberger

An audio encoder has a first information sink oriented encoding branch such as a spectral domain encoding branch, a second information source or SNR oriented encoding branch such as an LPC-domain encoding branch, and a switch for switching between the first and second encoding branches, the second encoding branch having a converter into a specific domain different from the spectral domain such as an LPC analysis stage generating an excitation signal, and the second encoding branch having a specific domain coding branch such as LPC domain processing branch, and a specific spectral domain coding branch such as LPC spectral domain processing branch, and an additional switch for switching between the specific domain coding branch and the specific spectral domain coding branch. An audio decoder has a first domain decoder, a second domain decoder, and a third domain decoder as well as two cascaded switches for switching between the decoders.

Low bitrate audio encoding/decoding scheme having cascaded switches

An apparatus for generating loudspeaker signals includes an object metadata processor configured to receive metadata, to calculate a second position of the audio object depending on the first position of the audio object and on a size of a screen if the audio object is indicated in the metadata as being screen-related, to feed the first position of the audio object as the position information into the object renderer if the audio object is indicated in the metadata as being not screen-related, and to feed the second position of the audio object as the position information into the object renderer if the audio object is indicated in the metadata as being screen-related. The apparatus further includes an object renderer configured to receive an audio object and to generate the loudspeaker signals depending on the audio object and on position information.

Apparatus and method for screen related audio object remapping

An audio decoder for providing at least four audio channel signals on the basis of an encoded representation is configured to provide a first residual signal and a second residual signal on the basis of a jointly encoded representation of the first residual signal and of the second residual signal using a multi-channel decoding. The audio decoder is configured to provide a first audio channel signal and a second audio channel signal on the basis of a first downmix signal and the first residual signal using a residual-signal-assisted multi-channel decoding. The audio decoder is configured to provide a third audio channel signal and a fourth audio channel signal on the basis of a second downmix signal and the second residual signal using a residual-signal-assisted multi-channel decoding. An audio encoder is based on corresponding considerations.

Audio encoder, audio decoder, methods and computer program using jointly encoded residual signals

In multichannel audio coding, an improved coding efficiency is achieved by the following measure: the noise filling of zero-quantized scale factor bands is performed using noise filling sources other than artificially generated noise or spectral replica. In particular, the coding efficiency in multichannel audio coding may be rendered more efficient by performing the noise filling based on noise generated using spectral lines from a previous frame of, or a different channel of the current frame of, the multichannel audio signal.

Noise filling in multichannel audio coding

An apparatus for upmixing a downmix audio signal describing one or more downmix audio channels into an upmixed audio signal describing a plurality of upmixed audio channels includes an upmixer and a parameter determinator. The upmixer is configured to apply temporally variable upmix parameters to upmix the downmix audio signal in order to obtain the upmixed audio signal, wherein the temporally variable upmix parameters include temporally variable smoothened phase values. The parameter determinator is configured to obtain one or more temporally smoothened upmix parameters for usage by the upmixer on the basis of a quantized upmix parameter input information. The parameter determinator is configured to combine a scaled version of a previous smoothened phase value with a scaled version of an input phase information using a phase change limitation algorithm, to determine a current smoothened phase value on the basis of the previous smoothened phase value and the phase input information.

Apparatus, method and computer program for upmixing a downmix audio signal using a phase value smoothing

Audio encoder for encoding audio input data to obtain audio output data includes an input interface for receiving a plurality of audio channels, a plurality of audio objects and metadata related to one or more of the plurality of audio objects; a mixer for mixing the plurality of objects and the plurality of channels to obtain a plurality of pre-mixed channels, each pre-mixed channel including audio data of a channel and audio data of at least one object; a core encoder for core encoding core encoder input data; and a metadata compressor for compressing the metadata related to the one or more of the plurality of audio objects, wherein the audio encoder is configured to operate in at least one mode of the group of two modes.

Concept for audio encoding and decoding for audio channels and audio objects

An apparatus for encoding a multi-channel signal having at least three channels includes an iteration processor, a channel encoder and an output interface. The iteration processor is configured to calculate inter-channel correlation values between each pair of the at least three channels, for selecting a pair including a highest value or including a value above a threshold, and for processing the selected pair using a multi-channel processing operation to derive first multi-channel parameters for the selected pair and to derive first processed channels. The iteration processor is configured to perform the calculating, the selecting and the processing using at least one of the processed channels to derive second multi-channel parameters and second processed channels. The channel encoder is configured to encode channels resulting from an iteration processing to obtain encoded channels. The output interface is configured to generate an encoded multi-channel signal including the encoded channels and the first and second multi-channel parameters.

Apparatus and method for encoding or decoding a multi-channel signal

An apparatus for generating one or more audio channels. The apparatus comprises a metadata decoder for generating one or more reconstructed metadata signals from one or more processed metadata signals depending on a control signal, wherein each of the one or more reconstructed metadata signals indicates information associated with an audio signal of one or more audio signals, wherein the metadata decoder is configured to generate the one or more reconstructed metadata signals by determining a plurality of reconstructed metadata samples for each of the one or more reconstructed metadata signals. Moreover, the apparatus comprises an audio channel generator for generating the one or more audio channels depending on the one or more audio signals and depending on the one or more reconstructed metadata signals.

Apparatus and method for low delay object metadata coding

An encoder/decoder is based on a combination of two audio or video channels to obtain a first combination signal as a mid-signal and a residual signal derivable using a predicted side signal derived from the mid-signal. A decoder uses the prediction residual signal, the first combination signal, a prediction direction indicator and prediction information to derive decoded first channel and second channel signals. A real-to-imaginary transform can be applied for estimating the imaginary part of the spectrum of the first combination signal. The prediction signal used in the derivation of the prediction residual signal, the real-valued first combination signal is multiplied by a real portion of the complex prediction information and the estimated imaginary part of the first combination signal is multiplied by an imaginary portion of the complex prediction information.

Audio or video encoder, audio or video decoder and related methods for processing multi-channel audio or video signals using a variable prediction direction

An apparatus for generating a plurality of audio channels for a speaker setup, comprises a processor repeating an energy distribution from a speaker not contained in the speaker setup to the speakers in the speaker setup to acquire a downmix information for a downmix to the speaker setup; and a renderer for generating the plurality of audio channels using the downmix information.

Apparatus and method for generating a plurality of audio channels

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Johannes Hilpert