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PsychoacousticsandtheMP3Codec
PresentationBy:RamiBotrosSupervisor:RobOpdam
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Purpose:GiveanintroductionaboutPsychoacoustics,thenshowapplicationsofitintheMP3codec
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Introduction
FromtheofficialhomepageoftheMovingPictureExpertsGroup
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Outline
Psychoacoustics Perceptualcodecs Masking
TemporalMasking SimultaneousMasking
MP3codec Encodingscheme
OutlookandConclusionPsychoacousticsandtheMP3Codec 4
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Psychoacoustics
Therelationbetweenphysicalaspectsofacousticeventsandtheresultinghumanauditoryperceptions[2].
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Psychoacoustics
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Psychoacoustics
Examples: Sensitivitytorangesofamplitudesorfrequenciesloudness
Indisguinshablity betweencertainwaveforms Soundlocalization
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Psychoacoustics
Psychoacousticsdealswithsubjectiveperception
Sometimesreliesonsurveyinghumansubjects
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PerceptualCodecs
Codec:Algorithmtoconvertinformationtocodeandviceversa.
Humansdonotprocessalldatatheysense Perceptualcodecneglectsdatathatcannotbeperceived
Perceptualcodecsarelossy. Upto90%compression
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MaskingEffect
Afainter,butdistinctlyaudiblesignal(themaskee)becomesinaudiblewhenacorrespondinglyloudersignaloccurs.
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TemporalMasking
Similarfrequencyconsecutivesoundscanmaskeachother
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[2]
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TemporalMaskingDemonstration
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Forwardmasking 100msdelay 10msdelay
BackwardMasking 100msdelay 10msdelay
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SimultaneousMasking
Forsignalswithsimilarfrequencies Total:24frequencybands[4]
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[2]
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FrequencyMaskingDemonstration
Singlereferencetonefollowedbytwotones Thehigherfrequencytoneisreducedinamplitudebystepsof5dB.
Sequencerepeatedwithlargerfrequencyseparation
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FrequencyMaskingDemonstration2
Largeramplitudemasksbroaderrangeoffrequencies
Puretonesmaskhigherfrequenciesbetterthanlowerfrequencies.
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MP3Encoding
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MP3Encoding
Signalbrokendownintotimeframes Conversiontofrequencydomain Spectralenergydistributiondeterminedandbitratedistributedaccordingly
Frequencydistributioncomparedwithpsychoacousticmodelandbitratesloweredaccordingly
Huffmanencoding(lossless)
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MP3Decoding
Straightforwardreconstructionofbitstream Nofreemodels
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Successor
AACisthedefaultorstandardaudioformatfor YouTube, iPhone, iPod, iPad, NintendoDSi, iTunes, DivXPlusWebPlayerandPlayStation3.
Features: Morechannels Variablebitrateandframelength Moreflexibility Highercodingefficiencyandaccuracy
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Conclusion
Humanperceptionofsoundnotstraightforward
Maskingeffect:Onesignalcomponenthidestheother
MP3useslossy compressionbasedonpsychoacousticmodelofimperceptiblesignals.
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References
1. M.Kahrs,K.Brandenburg,ApplicationsofDigitalSignalProcessingtoAudioandAcoustics,KluwerAcademicPublishers,2000
2. S.Hacker,MP3:TheDefinitiveGuide,OREILLY,2000
3. http://mpeg.chiariglione.org/standards/mpeg2/audio,Retrievedon07Mar13
4. R.Raissi,TheTheoryBehindMp3,2002
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Questions
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