Parametric stereo coder with only MDCT domain computations

A parametric stereo coder in the MDCT domain is introduced in this work. Psychoacoustic modeling, parameter estimation and stereo synthesis are implemented in the MDCT domain. The encoder requires only MDCT domain computations and hence results in lower computational complexity. In addition, a low-complexity bit allocation algorithm is used for adaptive quantization of the MDCT coefficients. Perceptual evaluation shows that the proposed audio coder performance is comparable with that of MPEG-2 AAC coder with lower complexity.