Spectral Band Replication

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Spectral Band Replication is an audio coding enhancement technique that reconstructs high-frequency components from lower-frequency data to improve compression efficiency at low bitrates.

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instanceOf audio coding enhancement technique
perceptual audio coding tool
abbreviation SBR
alsoKnownAs bandwidth extension tool
appliesTo perceptual audio codecs
backwardCompatibleWith AAC decoders that ignore SBR data (with reduced bandwidth)
basedOn psychoacoustic principles
spectral domain processing
componentOf HE-AAC (High Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding) NERFINISHED
HE-AAC v1 NERFINISHED
HE-AAC v2 NERFINISHED
developedBy Coding Technologies NERFINISHED
domain audio coding
audio signal processing
hasAdvantage better quality at a given low bitrate compared to core codec alone
hasKeyIdea reconstructing high-frequency bands from low-frequency bands at the decoder
transmitting low-frequency content and side information instead of full high-frequency data
hasTradeoff increased decoder complexity
possible artifacts in reconstructed high frequencies
improves coding efficiency at low bitrates
subjective audio quality at low bitrates
influenced later bandwidth extension techniques in audio coding
introducedIn early 2000s
laterOwnedBy Dolby Laboratories NERFINISHED
operatesOn frequency-domain representation of audio
reduces bitrate required for wideband audio
relatedTo AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) NERFINISHED
MPEG audio coding NERFINISHED
parametric stereo
requires SBR-aware decoder for full benefit
standardizedIn MPEG-4 AAC family NERFINISHED
MPEG-4 HE-AAC v1 NERFINISHED
MPEG-4 HE-AAC v2 NERFINISHED
MPEG-4 High Efficiency AAC NERFINISHED
targetBitrateRange very low to low bitrate audio coding
typicalUseCase digital broadcasting at constrained bitrates
mobile audio streaming
streaming audio over low-bandwidth connections
usedFor extending audio bandwidth in compressed audio signals
improving audio compression efficiency at low bitrates
reconstructing high-frequency audio components
uses envelope parameters for high-frequency bands
noise-like and tonal components modeling
side information to guide high-frequency reconstruction
worksBy copying and transposing low-frequency spectral components to higher bands
shaping reconstructed high-frequency content using transmitted envelope data

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ISO/IEC 14496-3 specifies Spectral Band Replication