The Layer II coder provides a higher compression rate by making some relatively minor modifications to the Layer I coding scheme. These modifications include how the samples are grouped together, the ...

December 14, 2004 MP3, the world's most popular audio compression format is about to go multi-channel. Scientists and engineers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, who developed ...

PARIS - Dec. 2, 2004 - Thomson (Euronext Paris:18453) (NYSE:TMS) today announced that mp3, the world's most popular audio compression format, goes multi-channel. Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated ...

The MP3 is officially "no more". Well - that's according to a statement from one of the main developers of the digital audio coding format in Germany. The Fraunhofer Institute says it has "terminated" ...

Lossy compression schemes can be based on a source model, as in the case of speech compression, or a user or sink model, as is somewhat the case in image compression. In this chapter we look at audio ...