B2P3 - Digitisation and lossy compression Flashcards
a.c. coefficients
weights the basis functions at (1-7, 1-7) of a DCT table, the results evaluating to the amount of each spatial-frequency in the macroblock;
Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR)
a speech coding standard that adapts its bit rate to channel conditions;
advanced audio coding (AAC)
MPEG-2/4 streamingFormat, with better quality than MP3 but with same bitRate;
aliasing
where samplingRate < 2*f;
analogue-to-digital converter (ADC)
takes an analogue signal, samples it, n-bit-quantises it, and returns a digital signal;
basis function
reps a specific hori-vert spatial-frequency, appearing as an entry in a DCT table;
B-frames
‘bi-directional prediction’ frames inserted between I-frames and P-frames filling in missing frames in the group of pictures (GOP) format;
bit rate
number of bits passing a given point in the network per unit time;
code-excited linear prediction (CELP)
= LPC - U/V_switch + codebook;
coding efficiency
minimising bitRate while holding videoQuality constant, or vice versa;
comfort noise (CN)
synthetic background noise for silent periods in voiceComms;
d.c. coefficient
weights the basis function at (0, 0) of a DCT table, the result evaluating to the average spatial-frequency of the whole macroblock;
dequantising
dequantise(n-bit_reps) = analogue;
difference error
pixel-subtracting one video frame from another;
difference pulse-code modulation (DPCM)
= PCM + predictionOfDataSamples (used in JPEG);
discontinuous transmission (DTX)
where mobile devices are powered-down when there is no voiceInput;
discrete cosine transformation (DCT)
DCT(spatialRep) = frequencyRep (used in J/MPEG);
discrete wavelet transform (DWT)
DWT(spatialRep) = frequencyRep (used in JPEG2000; better performance at low bitRates);
distortion
= reconstructedSignal - originalSignal;
encoding
encode(symbols) = bitStrings;
formants
the vocal tract’s spectral peaks characterising ‘voiced’ speechSegments;
frequency masking
where high-amplitude sounds cover up low-amplitude sounds at neighbouring frequencies;
group of pictures (GOP)
concatenating I-, P-, and B-frames for videoCompression (used in MPEG-1/2/4);
H.264 / advanced video coding (AVC)
an MPEG-4 videoCodingStreaming tech;