Foreword by Leonardo Chiariglione.
The topic of digital audio coding is of interest to a wide audience,
including engineering and industrial professionals working in
telecommunications, hardware design, music, and software product
development.
Introduction to Digital Audio Coding and Standards provides a
detailed introduction to the methods, implementations, and official
standards of state-of-the-art audio coding technology. In the book, the
theory and implementation of each of the basic coder building blocks is
addressed. The building blocks are then fit together into a full coder
and the reader is shown how to judge the performance of such a coder.
Finally, the authors discuss the features, choices, and performance of
the main state-of-the-art coders defined in the ISO/IEC MPEG and HDTV
standards and in commercial use today.
The ultimate goal of this book is to present the reader with a solid
enough understanding of the major issues in the theory and
implementation of perceptual audio coders that they are able to build
their own simple audio codec. There is no other source available where a
non-professional has access to the true secrets of audio coding.
Introduction to Digital Audio Coding and Standards is based on a
graduate course at Stanford University going into its 7th year. The
subject material has been fine-tuned through this process to be
accessible to readers of vastly differing backgrounds, levels of
preparation, and interests. Exercises that apply the concepts covered
are included at the end of each chapter.