Efficient Complex Immittance Spectral Frequency With the Perceptual-Metric-Based Codebook Search

Abstract

Complex-valued frequency-domain linear predictive coding (CLPC) has been developed for audio coding. Recently, representations for efficiently quantizing CLPC coefficients have been proposed, including the complex immittance spectral frequency (CISF). The CISF has limitations in that it requires signalling the sequential information to eliminate ambiguity and the highest-order coefficient (HOC) for reconstructing the CLPC coefficients. This study developed a modified CISF-based method that eliminates the need for additional information by utilizing intermediate complex polynomial properties. Furthermore, a perceptual-metric-based codebook search was proposed to improve quantization efficiency. The experimental results show robust quantization performance, while listening tests demonstrate superior audio quality compared to MPEG-D USAC long TCX at 12 kbps.