EP2691952A1 - Allocation par sous-bandes de bits de quantification de paramètres d'information spatiale pour un codage paramétrique - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to encoding multichannel audio streams representing spatialized sound scenes for storage or transmission purposes.
- It relates more particularly to the parametric encoding / decoding of multichannel audio streams.
- This type of coding is based on the coding of a signal resulting from a downmix processing of the multichannel audio stream and the associated coding of spatial information parameters of the sound sources.
- the spatial information parameters are used to find the spatialization of the sound sources from the "downmix" signal which will be called thereafter, sum signal.
- the invention relates more particularly to the coding and decoding of these spatial information parameters.
- the bit budget available according to the coders is not always sufficient. In the case of frequency subband coding, this budget is divided into subbands.
- One of these techniques consists in coding only the parameters of one of every two frequency bands for each time frame. Thus the non-coded subbands in the current frame are assigned the corresponding values of the previous frame.
- Another technique is to perform an intra or interframe differential coding.
- the psycho-acoustic criterion used here relates to a sensitivity to the coded parameters and not to a sensitivity of spatial displacements of the sound sources.
- auditory perception or sensitivity with respect to a spatial resolution in the subbands can vary at any time from one subband to another, regardless of the parameter to be encoded.
- the present invention improves the situation.
- the method proposes a method of allocating bits of quantization of spatial information parameters by frequency sub-band, for a parametric coding / decoding of a multichannel audio stream representing a sound scene consisting of a plurality of sound sources and having a step of quantization / inverse quantization by frequency subband of spatial information parameters of the sound sources of the sound scene.
- the method is such that it comprises the following steps:
- the number of bits to be allocated being inversely proportional to the estimated spatial resolution
- the method according to the invention uses a psycho-acoustic criterion to optimize the strategy for allocating the quantization bits of the spatial information parameters as a function of the sub-band, so as to privilege at each moment the sub-bands. which are most useful to the auditory system, regardless of the spatial information parameters to be coded or decoded.
- Spatial resolution in a sub-band can be defined as the smallest angle between two sources that the auditory system is able to discriminate.
- the spectral properties of a subband are represented by the central frequency of the subband.
- a central frequency of a subband corresponds a spatial resolution for the subband.
- This method of estimating the spatial resolution is then very simple and does not require analysis in the subbands.
- the allocation is then determined by subband cutting and does not depend on the content.
- the spectral properties of a subband are energy properties in the subband.
- the spatial resolution associated with a subband is inversely proportional to the energy in that subband. So in this embodiment, plus one subband contains energy, the smaller its resolution is estimated and the larger the number of bits allocated for that subband.
- the energy properties may correspond to the energy measured in the sub-band or more precisely to a measure of the energy distance of this subband to its masking / audibility threshold.
- the spectral properties of a subband are both energy properties in the subband and the center frequency of the subband.
- the spatial resolution of a subband is further estimated from the spectral properties of the other subbands of a set of subbands defining the sound sources.
- the other subbands can be considered as distractive concurrent sources that are likely to degrade the spatial sensitivity associated with this sub-band.
- the spectral properties of the other frequency sub-bands makes it possible to estimate this degradation and to predict the spatial resolution associated with the sub-band.
- This consideration makes it possible to dynamically define how accurately the spatialization information associated with each subband must be encoded, based on a decrease or an increase in the spatial resolution.
- the resulting quantization error is adapted according to the spatial sensitivity to minimize the error when the sensitivity is maximum, and conversely to maximize when the sensitivity is minimal.
- the quantization error is thus, from a perceptual point of view, minimized homogeneously.
- the spectral properties of a subband are obtained from a decoded sum signal resulting from a channel reduction processing of the multichannel audio stream.
- the estimation of the spatial resolution by subband does not require information of the position type of the sound sources but only information on the spectral properties of the subbands. This information can therefore be obtained from the sum signal decoded either locally in an encoder at the coding step or decoded by the decoder itself at the decoding step. It is therefore not necessary to send additional information to the decoder to find the quantization bit allocation strategy. This greatly reduces the amount of information to be transmitted between the encoder and the decoder.
- the energy properties in a subband include the primary energy and ambient energy properties in the subband.
- the correlated energy share (primary energy) between the different channels of the multichannel signal is differentiated from the uncorrelated (ambient) one in the psychoacoustic model for estimating the spatial resolution.
- the estimation of the spatial resolution is more precise and closer to reality.
- the number of bits to be allocated for a sub-band is part of a predetermined number of bits to be distributed between the sub-bands, adding to a number of bits already allocated by sub-bands. .
- the allocation defined here applies to a number of bits remaining to be allocated in a quantization bit budget, part of the quantization bits of the global budget having already been distributed between the subbands.
- the decoder it is possible to approximately decode the spatial information parameters from the quantization bits already allocated, the additional bits budget making it possible to refine the decoding and to adapt it to the auditory perception.
- the determination of the number of bits to be allocated for a sub-band is adjusted according to the difference between the resolution in this sub-band and a predetermined reference resolution, to which corresponds a bit allocation. predetermined reference.
- the method is implemented for a set of unmasked subbands determined by an energy masking step between subbands.
- the allocation method is implemented only for the audible subbands, that is to say non-masked, which allows to concentrate the budget of bits to allocate on these subbands.
- the present invention also aims at a device for allocating bits of quantization of spatial information parameters by subband of frequency, for a Parametric encoder / decoder of a multichannel audio stream representing a sound scene consisting of a plurality of sound sources and having a frequency subband inverse quantization / quantization module of spatial information parameters of the sound sources of the sound stage .
- the device is such that it comprises:
- This device has the same advantages as the method described above, which it implements.
- the invention relates to an encoder or a decoder comprising such an allocation device. It relates to a computer program comprising code instructions for implementing the steps of the allocation method as described, when these instructions are executed by a processor.
- the invention relates to a storage medium, readable by a processor, integrated or not to the allocation device, possibly removable, storing a computer program implementing an allocation method as described above.
- FIG. 1 illustrates a parametric coding and decoding system of a multichannel audio stream in which the allocation device according to one embodiment of the invention is provided;
- FIG. 2 illustrates in flowchart form the steps of an allocation method according to one embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 3 illustrates a particular hardware configuration of an allocation device according to the invention.
- FIG. 1 thus describes a parametric coding / decoding system for a multichannel audio stream.
- This figure illustrates the encoder 100, the decoder 110 and the allocation device 120 according to one embodiment of the invention.
- the channels x 1 (n), x 2 (n),. .., x "(n) of the multichannel audio stream are first transformed by a time / frequency transform module 106, before being input to both a channel reduction processing module 101 or "Downmix" module and a spatial information parameter extraction module 102.
- the transformation effected by the module 106 may be of different types. It can use for example a filter bank technique, or a short-term Fourier Transform (TFCT) technique using an FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) type algorithm.
- the filters can be defined so that the resulting frequency sub-bands describe perceptual frequency scales, for example by choosing constant bandwidths in the ERB scales (for "Rectangular Bandwidth Equivalent”).
- the same process can be applied in the case of a TFCT technique by grouping the frequency bits of each time frame according to the ERB scales.
- a "downmix" signal or sum signal from the channel reduction processing module 101 (mono or stereo signal) is obtained by optionally weighted summation of the different channels in each sub-band.
- This sum signal is then coded by a core coding module 103 which may be of different types, for example of standard MPEG-4 AAC audio coding type.
- This coded signal is then transmitted on the network to be subsequently decoded by the corresponding core decoder 113.
- the module 102 extracts the spatial information parameters of the audio channels. These parameters are those that describe the spatial position of the channels. These parameters may be, for example, the pair of ILD (Interaural Level Difference) and IPD (Interaural Phase Difference) parameters as defined for the stereo parametric coding method described in the Breebaart document, J. ; Van of Par, S; Kohlrausch, A & Schuijers, E, "Parametric Coding of Stereo Audio” in EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, 2005, 9 pp. 1305-1322.
- ILD Interaural Level Difference
- IPD Interaural Phase Difference
- These parameters may, in another example, be of primary and ambient position vectors type as for the representation described in the document "Spatial audio scene coding” of Goodwin, M. & Jot, 1, 125th AES Convention, 2008 October 2- 5, San Francisco, USA, 2008.
- the spatial information parameters thus extracted are then quantized by the quantization module 104 according to a quantization bit allocation defined by the allocation device 120.
- the allocation device 120 implements an allocation method which will be described with reference to FIG. 2.
- This allocation device 120 receives as input the decoded sum signal S sd by a local decoder 105 of the encoder or in the case of the decoder, decoded by the decoding module 113. From this decoded sum signal S sd, a module 121 for estimating a spatial resolution per frequency subband determines the spectral properties of the frequency subbands.
- a spectral property of a frequency sub-band is the center frequency of this sub-band.
- the determined spectral properties are energy properties in the subband.
- the spectral properties are both the energy properties and the center frequency in the subband.
- This spatial resolution corresponds to the smallest angle between two sources that the human auditory system can discriminate. This spatial resolution can still be called MAA (for "Minimum Audible Angle” in English) as defined by the AW Mills document “On the Minimum Audible Angle” in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 83 (S1): S122, May 1988.
- the spatial resolution per frequency subband thus determined makes it possible to determine a number of bits to be allocated to the subband for the quantization of the spatial information parameters.
- This step is implemented by the module 122 for determining the number of bits. This step will be explained in more detail with reference to FIG.
- This allocation of the number of bits per frequency subband is then based on psycho-acoustic and not purely mathematical considerations as was done before in the state of the art. Thus, this allocation takes into account the perception of the auditory system in the frequency bands.
- the quantization errors of the spatial parameters result in changes of position of the sound sources at the time of the decoding. These changes of position induce a spatial distortion of the sound scene which, evolving over time, results in a spatial instability.
- the spatial resolution can be interpreted as a sensitivity to this spatial distortion. This sensitivity can be expressed for each sub-band by the module 121.
- the allocation device 120 will then model the quantization error as a function of this sensitivity in order to minimize the error when the sensitivity is maximum, and vice versa. maximize when the sensitivity is minimal.
- the allocation thus determined makes it possible to quantify (Q) the coder the spatial information parameters by the quantization module 104 or to perform an inverse quantization (Q "1 ) at the decoder by the inverse quantization module 114 to obtain these parameters. settings.
- the synthesis module 112 can, from the de-quantized spatial information and the decoded sum signal S sd , obtain the multichannel audio stream in the frequency domain and then after inverse time / frequency transformation of the module 116, the audio stream in the time domain x 1 (n), x 2 (n),. .., ⁇ x n (n).
- FIG. 2 now illustrates the steps of the bit allocation method in one embodiment of the invention.
- an energy masking step E201 between the frequency subbands can optionally be performed.
- This step selects a set of frequency subbands audible by the auditory system.
- a subband having a high energy level can potentially mask (I.e. inaudible) neighboring subbands with a low energy level.
- a set of sub-bands ⁇ b k ⁇ is thus defined to implement the steps of the allocation method.
- each sub-band is considered as a target source, the other sub-bands can be considered as distractive sources.
- step E202 spectral properties of the subbands of the set ⁇ b k ⁇ are extracted.
- these spectral properties are either only the central frequency f c of the current sub-band, or only its energy properties (I), or both.
- each sub-band does not quite reflect the reality in terms of perception at the time of the restitution, and that because only part of this energy will be restored in a correlated way between the different channels. The rest will be uncorrelated. It is therefore interesting to estimate and specify to the psycho-acoustic model what will be the proportion of correlated energy (primary energy) and uncorrelated energy (ambient energy).
- the energy properties can then be discriminated in primary energy (I p ) which represents the correlated energy between the subbands and the ambient energy (I a ) representing the decorrelated energy in the current subband. From the knowledge of one or more of these parameters, the step E203 makes an estimation of the spatial resolution in the current subband. Each subband is considered in turn as a target.
- a psycho-acoustic model ⁇ is determined and makes it possible to obtain the spatial resolution or the MAA, associated with each sub-band.
- the spatial resolution of the auditory system can be defined as the smallest angle between two sound sources that it is able to discriminate.
- the reference study by Mills mentioned above was supported by more recent studies described, for example, in the Perrott DR and Saberi K. paper, "Minimum audible angle thresholds for varying degrees of elevation and azimuth" in The journal of the acoustical Society of America, 87 (4): 1728-1731, April 1990.
- the MAA defines the minimum precision with which the position of a sound source must be described in order not to introduce audible artifacts. A position error lower than the MAA will not be perceived by the auditory system. Thus the MAA represents the "spatial blur" of perception of a sound source.
- a simplified psycho-acoustic model according to the invention only takes into account the central frequency of the current subband.
- the central frequency of the sub-band considered defines its associated MAA according to a predefined correspondence table, for example by subjective tests. Such correspondence is for example described in the Mills paper cited above.
- Another simplified psycho-acoustic model takes into account only the energy properties of the current subband.
- the energy properties correspond to the energy measured in the subband.
- the associated MAA is considered to be inversely proportional to the energy in that subband.
- the energy properties correspond to a measurement of the energy distance of this subband to its masking / audibility threshold. This is called audible energy in the subband.
- the MAA associated with this subband is also inversely proportional to the audible energy in that subband. In other words, the more audible energy a subband contains, the smaller its MAA will be.
- the psychoacoustic model not only takes into account the characteristics of the current sub-band but also those of the other sub-bands which are then considered as distractive subbands.
- MAA or spatial resolution
- the action, on a given source, of the competing sources can be seen as a "spatial blurring" of this source.
- the effect of "blurring” depends on the frequency content of the source and its energy, as well as on the frequency content and energy of each of the competing sources.
- the effect of the position of the distractive sources on the "blurring" is negligible, in that the MAA can be estimated without the position information of the distractive sources.
- the MAA associated with a source depends on the position of that source relative to the listener's head. The best performance (lowest MAA) is observed when the listener faces the source.
- the psychoacoustic model according to the invention it is assumed that the listener is free to direct his head within the listening device.
- the listener is assumed that the listener is still facing the source in question.
- the position information of that source is not necessary. From these results, a psychoacoustic model that describes the MAA associated with a given source can be constructed based on the presence and properties (energy, frequency content) of other sources.
- the MAAs associated with the different sub-bands can be calculated from the "downmix" component or sum signal as described with reference to FIG. 1. The consequence is that, for the decoding, it is not necessary. to transmit the quantization strategy, but it can be deduced from the sum signal according to the same procedure as the encoding.
- each sub-band constitutes a source characterized by its central frequency and its energy (primary and ambient).
- the function ⁇ produces the associated MAA in the presence of the other sources considered as distractive, ie the maximum non-perceptible position error applicable to this source. in the presence of others.
- each source (or target distractive) is characterized at step E202 by three parameters ⁇ f c, I p, I a ⁇ , where f c is the center frequency of the sub-band considered, and I p and I a are respectively primary and ambient energy in this subband.
- the psychoacoustic model MJ (c, di, d 2, ..., d N) of torque values MAA ⁇ a p , aa ⁇ , respectively corresponding to the primary and ambient energy components, associated with step E203 at each subband considered in turn as a target.
- the value of MAA considered will be respectively a p or a a , and therefore this distinction will no longer be made in the rest of the document. If the distribution I p / I a is unknown (non-transmitted parameter), the decoder will assume that all the energy is correlated (primary energy), as well as the psycho-acoustic model, so as to obtain a correspondence during the restitution. .
- the function MJ (b k , bi, ..., b k -i, b k + i, ..., b K ) is called to estimate the " spatial blurring exerted on this sub-band by the other sub-bands, which are therefore considered as distractive, and ⁇ produces the MAA associated with this sub-band.
- the estimation of the spatial resolution is then done dynamically since the influence of the other subbands is taken into account.
- the different spatial resolutions thus estimated in the frequency sub-bands make it possible to determine the number of bits to be allocated for the quantization of the spatial information parameters in each of the sub-bands.
- step E204 a determination of the number of bits to be allocated to the current subband as a function of the estimated spatial resolution is performed.
- the strategy for allocating the quantization bits of the spatial isation parameters will then consist in maximizing the number of bits for the sub-bands presenting the minimum MAA, to the detriment of the sub-bands for which the MAA is maximum.
- the number of bits to be allocated for a sub-band is inversely proportional to the estimated spatial resolution for this sub-band.
- the allocation method can therefore adapt the bit allocation from one sub-band to another depending on the sensitivity of the auditory system to a spatial distortion. This sensitivity is given by the psycho-acoustic model.
- This method can be implemented both in constrained rate transmission context and non-constrained rate transmission context.
- bit budget is left available for a variable allocation from one sub-band to another according to the MAA associated therewith.
- a certain budget of "floating" bits is therefore to be distributed between the same parameter of each of the subbands so as to minimize perceptively the spatial distortion resulting from the quantization process, homogeneously in each of the subbands.
- the rest of the bit budget is evenly distributed among all the subbands.
- the quality of spatial coding is therefore defined by the average number, over all the sub-bands, of bits allocated to the same parameter, or, equivalently, by the total number of bits allocated to the same parameter for all the sub-bands. bands.
- a target spatial coding quality is chosen and imposed by the user.
- This target quality is defined by the average number, on all the time frames and on all the sub-bands, of bits assigned to the same parameter.
- the average MAA then considered as a reference resolution value, is assumed to be estimable or predictable, all sub-bands combined, on all or part of the time frames.
- Subbands whose estimated MAA is equal to the average MAA will be allocated the average number of bits per user-defined parameter.
- the bit allocation for the other subbands is made, as in constrained flow context, so as to perceptively minimize the spatial distortion resulting from the quantization process, homogeneously in each of the subbands, but given the number bits to allocate to the average MAA subbands.
- the determination of the number of bits to be allocated for a sub-band is performed if the resolution in the sub-band is different from a predetermined reference value, here the average MAA.
- a minimum number of bits is already allocated per subband to encode each parameter, which on the one hand ensures a minimum spatial reproduction quality for all audible subbands, and on the other hand provides an approximate value of the parameter concerned which is accessible to the decoding.
- N total number of bits to allocate
- n minimum number of bits assigned to each subband parameter
- fiott number of floating bits to be distributed between the subbands (according to psychoacoustic model)
- argmax k (N k ) m: index of the subband to which the most bits are allocated
- MJ (b k, b, ..., b k -i, b k + i, ..., bK) a k: MAA associated with subband k (given by the psychoacoustic model)
- N k number of floating bits allocated to the parameter of b k
- the total bit budget is defined by:
- the sub-band encoded on the most bits (bm) must be the sub-band having the smallest MAA (a m ), and the coding precision ratio between the current subband bk and bm must be inversely proportional to the MAA ratio of these two subbands:
- N, N, _ + loe "
- the formulas (2) and (3) respectively give a first approximation of the number of bits to be allocated to the parameter of the sub-bands N k and N m . If there are still bits to allocate, or if too many bits have been allocated, the following heuristic (so-called "greedy” algorithm) makes it possible to finalize the allocation process of the floating bits.
- a k be the difference between the optimal coding precision and the current accuracy for the subband k, derived from the formula (1):
- the index of the sub-band to which the next bit is to be allocated or restarted will be respectively determined by ar S max k fkk) or f fkmin k ( k ⁇ _ ⁇ es 3 ⁇ 4 recalculated after each operation (allocation or withdrawal)
- the allocation is finalized when the total number of floating bits allocated is exactly N f
- 0tt the sub-band that must receive (respectively to be removed) the next bit is the sub-band whose MAA is the smallest (respectively the highest).
- N ' k of bits allocated in total to the coding of the subband parameter b k is:
- N 'k "fi x + N k (5)
- ⁇ a average MAA (estimated or predicted) or spatial reference resolution, all sub-bands combined, on all or part of the temporal frames
- N number of floating bits assigned to the parameter of 3 ⁇ 4
- the coding precision ratio between the current subband ⁇ k and the reference subband 3 ⁇ 4 3 ⁇ 4 must be inversely proportional to the MAA ratio of these two subbands:
- the formula (5) gives the number of bits to be allocated in total to the coding of the parameter of the subband b k .
- each parameter is then quantized (Q) to the encoder to form the bit stream or de-quantized (Q "1 ) to the decoder according to the number of bits allocated to it.
- the primary and ambient energy distribution parameters which are coded on a fixed number of bits, must be transmitted first, since they will then be necessary for the decoding of the coded parameters on a variable number of bits. .
- the inverse quantization of the bit stream of the spatial parameters requires knowing the number of bits allocated to each parameter. The invention avoids transmission of additional information on the bit allocation strategy.
- the primary and ambient energy distribution parameters which are coded on a fixed number of bits, have been previously transmitted. They are decoded prior to decoding the other parameters.
- n fixed is non-zero
- the encoders and decoders as described with reference to FIG. 1 as well as the allocation device that is the subject of the invention can be integrated in multimedia equipments of the set-top box type, or audio or video content player. . They can also be integrated into mobile phone type communication equipment.
- FIG. 3 represents an exemplary embodiment of such an equipment in which the allocation device according to the invention is integrated.
- This device comprises a PROC processor cooperating with a memory block BM having a storage and / or working memory MEM.
- the memory block can advantageously comprise a computer program comprising code instructions for implementing the steps of the allocation method in the sense of the invention, when these instructions are executed by the processor PROC, and in particular the estimation steps.
- FIG. 2 repeats the steps of an algorithm of such a computer program.
- the computer program can also be stored on a memory medium readable by a reader of the device or downloadable in the memory space thereof.
- Such an equipment comprises an input module able to receive a sum signal decoded either from an encoder via a local decoder or from a decoder.
- the device comprises an output module able to transmit the number of bits to be allocated per frequency subband to the quantization modules of an encoder or to the inverse quantization module of a decoder.
- the device thus described may also include the coding and / or decoding functions in addition to the allocation functions according to the invention.
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