Research Article

Adaptive Variable Degree- 𝑘 Zero-Trees for Re-Encoding of Perceptually Quantized Wavelet Packet Transformed Audio and High-Quality Speech

Table 2

Results of EZW scheme, (a) relocating the sub-bands according to their lengths, (b) ordering the sub-bands on the basis of the average magnitude of their coefficients (speeches with suffix numbers 1 to 3 are in Farsi, German, and English languages, resp.).

Test signalLength (sec)SEGSNR (dB)PESQAverage bit-rate (bit/sec)
(a)(b)

Male 1423.914.203994534994
Female 1421.574.173926935900
Male 2420.363.933834632095
Female 2419.683.933795531850
Male 3425.053.864078830659
Female 3425.333.814169031861
Music 1418.514.426002053181
Music 2422.494.426328450872