Research Article

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

Table 3

Results of SPIHT scheme, (a) displacing the sub-bands in the basis of their length, (b) ordering the sub-bands based on the average magnitude of their coefficients, (c) modification of b based on modified 𝑂 ( 𝑖 , 𝑗 ) , and (d) modification of c based on merging sorting passes of the first two levels.

Test signalAverage bit-rate (bit/sec)
(a)(b)(c)(d)

Male 143784384773456434418
Female 143391391383534235255
Male 241374356033220331753
Female 241583351313183131592
Male 341614353993260631782
Female 342929363673336432813
Music 163841581545289852615
Music 265727572705326151497