Perceptual Audio Coding: A 40-Year Historical Perspective
In the history of audio and acoustic signal processing, perceptual audio coding has certainly excelled as a bright success story by its ubiquitous deployment in virtually all digital media devices, such as computers, tablets, mobile phones, set-top-boxes, and digital radios. From a technology perspective, perceptual audio coding has undergone tremendous development from the first very basic perceptually driven coders (including the popular mp3 format) to today’s full-blown integrated coding/rendering systems. This paper provides a historical overview of this research journey by pinpointing the pivotal development steps in the evolution of perceptual audio coding. Finally, it provides thoughts about future directions in this area.
Authors
- Jürgen Herre (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6713-5570)
- Minje Kim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3513-8328)
- Jan Skoglund (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-0167-4628)
- Schuyler Quackenbush (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5866-7949)
Institutions
- Google (United States) (US)
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
- International Audio Laboratories Erlangen (DE)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-03-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/icassp49660.2025.10887760
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Image and Signal Denoising Methods
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.28