Psychoacoustics Literature:

The following are purely on psychoacoustics, written by the leading researchers in the field:
  1. E. Zwicker and U.T. Zwicker, ``Audio engineering and psychoacoustics: Matching signals to the final receiver, the human auditory system,'' Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 115-126, Mar. 1991.
  2. B. Scharf, ``Critical bands,'' Chapter 5 of Foundations of Modern Auditory Theory (J. Tobias, ed.), New York: Academic, 1970.
  3. E. Zwicker and H. Fastl, Psychoacoustics: Facts and Models, Berlin: Springer, 1990.
These attempt to quantify audio quality:
  1. J.D. Johnston, ``Estimation of perceptual entropy using noise masking criteria,'' Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, vol. 5, pp. 2524-2527, 1988.
  2. J.G. Beerends and J.A. Stemerdink, ``A perceptual audio quality measure based on a psychoacoustic sound representation,'' Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, vol. 40, no. 12, pp. 963-978, Dec. 1992.

Perceptual Coding Literature:

Here is an overview of the currently popular perceptual coding schemes (including MPEG):
    K. Brandenburg and M. Bosi, ``Overview of MPEG audio: Current and future standards for low-bit-rate coding,'' Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, vol. 45, no. 1/2, pp. 4-21, Jan/Feb. 1997.
These are historically important (pre/non-MPEG) schemes:
  1. M.R. Schroeder, B.S. Atal, and J.L. Hall, ``Optimizing digital speech coders by exploiting masking properties of the human ear,'' Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 66, no. 6, pp. 1647-1651, Dec. 1979.
  2. J.D. Johnston, ``Transform coding of audio signals using perceptual noise criteria,'' IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 314-323, Feb. 1988.
  3. R.N.J. Veldhuis, M. Breeuwer, and R.G. Van der Waal, ``Subband coding of digital audio signals,'' Philips Journal of Research, vol. 44, pp. 329-343, 1989.
  4. K. Brandenburg, J. Herre, J.D. Johnston, Y. Mahieux, and E.F. Schroeder, ``ASPEC--Adaptive spectral entropy coding of high quality music signals,'' Audio Engineering Society Preprint #3011, May 1991.
  5. K. Tsutsui, H. Suzuki, O. Shimoyoshi, M. Sonohara, K. Akagiri, and R.M. Heddle, ``ATRAC: adaptive transform acoustic coding for MiniDisc,'' Audio Engineering Society Preprint #3456, Dec. 1992.
  6. C.C. Todd, G.A. Davidson, M.F. Davis, L.D. Fielder, B.D. Link, and S. Vernon, ``AC-3: Flexible perceptual coding for audio transmission and storage,'' Audio Engineering Society Preprint #3796, May 1994.

MPEG-Specific Literature:

High-level overviews:
  1. K. Brandenburg and G. Stoll, ``ISO-MPEG-1 audio: A generic standard for coding of high-quality digital audio,'' Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, vol. 42, no. 10, pp. 780-791, Oct. 1994.
  2. M. Bosi, K. Brandenburg, S. Quackenbush, L. Fielder, K. Akagiri, H. Fuchs, M. Dietz, J. Herre, G. Davidson, and Y. Oikawa, ``ISO/IEC MPEG-2 advanced audio coding,'' Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, vol. 45, no. 10, Oct. 1997.
Descriptions of implementation:
  1. B.G. Haskell, A. Puri, and A.N. Netravali, ``Audio,'' Chapter 4 of Digital Video: An Introduction To MPEG-2, New York: Chapman & Hall, 1997.
  2. U. Zolzer, ``Data Compression,'' Chapter 9 of Digital Audio Signal Processing, New York: Wiley, 1997.
The actual standards (MPEG 1,2,4 in order):
  1. ISO/IEC, International Standard IS 11172-3 ``Information technology -- Coding of moving pictures and associated audio for digital storage media at up to about 1.5 Mbits/s -- Part 3: Audio,'' Nov.1992.
  2. ISO/IEC, International Standard IS 13818-3 ``Information technology -- Generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information -- Part 3: Audio,'' Apr. 1997.
  3. ISO/IEC, International Standard IS 14496-3 ``Information technology -- Coding of audio-visual objects -- Part 3: Audio,'' Oct. 1998.

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