@inproceedings{5af4eebda3a94a8fb03f908695cca26d,
title = "Perceptual Audio Coding: A 40-Year Historical Perspective",
abstract = "In the history of audio and acoustic signal processing, perceptual audio coding has certainly excelled as a bright success story by its ubiquitous deployment in virtually all digital media devices, such as computers, tablets, mobile phones, set-top-boxes, and digital radios. From a technology perspective, perceptual audio coding has undergone tremendous development from the first very basic perceptually driven coders (including the popular mp3 format) to today's full-blown integrated coding/rendering systems. This paper provides a historical overview of this research journey by pinpointing the pivotal development steps in the evolution of perceptual audio coding. Finally, it provides thoughts about future directions in this area.",
keywords = "low-bitrate audio coding, masking, MPEG, neural coding, Perceptual audio coding, speech coding",
author = "J{\"u}rgen Herre and Schuyler Quackenbush and Minje Kim and Jan Skoglund",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2025 IEEE.; 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2025 ; Conference date: 06-04-2025 Through 11-04-2025",
year = "2025",
doi = "10.1109/ICASSP49660.2025.10887760",
language = "English (US)",
series = "ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
editor = "Rao, \{Bhaskar D\} and Isabel Trancoso and Gaurav Sharma and Mehta, \{Neelesh B.\}",
booktitle = "2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2025 - Proceedings",
address = "United States",
}