Axis Ab

Mersad Jelacic

Xing Danielsson Fan

Ricard Wanderlöf

Marcus Tedenvall

Markus Gerard

A method, a computer program product, an encoder and a monitoring device for encoding an audio signal with variable bitrate, wherein: an audio signal comprising a plurality of successive audio frames is received; and for each successive audio frame of the audio signal: the audio frame is represented in a frequency domain with respect to a plurality of frequency sub-bands; the audio frame is classified in each frequency sub-band as either background or foreground using a background model specific to the frequency sub-band; each successive audio frame of the audio signal is encoded, wherein a number of bits is allocated for each frequency sub-band of the audio frame, wherein the number of bits allocated for a frequency sub-band is higher if the audio frame is classified as foreground in the frequency sub-band than if the audio frame is classified as background in the frequency sub-band.

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Mersad Jelacic