Perceptual Audio Coding: A 40-Year Historical Perspective
Jürgen Herre, Schuyler Quackenbush, Minje Kim, Jan Skoglund
Abstract
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.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{icassp2025_perceptualaudioc,
title = {Perceptual Audio Coding: A 40-Year Historical Perspective},
author = {Jürgen Herre and Schuyler Quackenbush and Minje Kim and Jan Skoglund},
booktitle = {ICASSP 2025},
year = {2025}
}