Dolby Laboratories will acquire Coding Technologies, a Swedish company that provides audio compression technologies. Price tag: a quarter of a billion U.S. dollars. Coding Technologies is familiar to ...

A fundamental issue in auditory coding is the nature of the computations that transform the raw sensory signal into a representation that is useful for auditory tasks. The response properties of ...

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 ...