ABSTRACT
Having in mind the growing demand for the reliable delivery of high-quality multichannel audio in various multimedia applications such as home entertainment, digital audio broadcasting, computer games, music streaming services as well as teleconferencing, efficient coding techniques [1] have become paramount in the audio processing arena. The traditional approach for compressing multichannel audio has been to encode each audio channel using a mono audio coder, such as Dolby AC-3 and MPEG advanced audio coder (AAC) [2]. However, for the majority of coders adopting this method, the number of bits to be transmitted tends to increase linearly with the number of channels.
