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clinically-oriented lecture series
Part 2 of the AAI introductory immunology course revolves around what?
a background of the principles of immunology
What pre-requisite should enrollees in the advanced immunology course have?
two years of study
How long does it typically take to earn a Master's degree?
a doctoral programme
What program requires an additional two years of study?
MP3
What is the common name for MPEG-2 Audio Layer III?
digital
What kind of audio is the coding format for?
consumer audio streaming
Other than storage, what is the common audio format used for?
lossy data compression
What does MP3 use to format it's data?
digital audio players
Where will MP3 files most commonly be found?
sound like a faithful reproduction
What is the main goal aside from reducing the amount of data required to store the audio?
created
What kind of compression is used?
1/11
If a file is created using 128 kbit/s, what size is the file going to be compared to a CD?
1,411,200
How many total bit/s would a CD have?
128,000
How many total bit/s would an MP3 compressed at 128 kbit/s have?
accuracy
What does the compression target in the song?
auditory resolution
The targetting focuses on what aspect that is beyond the ability of most people?
perceptual coding
What is this method commonly referred to as?
psychoacoustic
What kind of model is used in this kind of compression?
less audible
These models ensure that the precision is reduced for the components that are what to human hearing?
Moving Picture Experts Group
Who designed MP3?
MPEG-1
What was the first standard that this group had?
MPEG-2
The first standard later developed into which standard?
1991
When was the draft passed to have MPEG-1 Audio approved as a standard?
1995
When was MPEG-2 Audio finally published?
perceptual limitation
What does the MP3 compression take advantage of?
auditory masking
What is the limitation in human hearing referred to as?
Alfred M. Mayer
Who was the physicist to report that a tone could be rendered inaudible.
1959
When were audio curves described by Richard Ehmer?
critical bandwidths
The initial work was aimed at determining critical ratios and what else?
The psychoacoustic masking codec
What was first proposed in 1979?
United States
Which country were the researchers located in?
Krasner
Who was the first to produce hardware for speech?
linear predictive coding
What does LPC stand for?
audio compression algorithms
What was reported in IEEE's Journal on Selected Areas in Communications?
Optimum Coding in the Frequency Domain
What does OCF stand for?
Perceptual Transform Coding
What does PXFM stand for?
ASPEC
What was the name of the codec that OCF, PFXM and other contributes merged into?
quality
Which competition did ASPEC win?
Motorola 56000 DSP chips
What was the first practical implementation based on?
doctoral
What kind of student was Karlheinz Brandenburg?
early 1980s
When did Karlheinz start working on digitmal music compression?
Erlangen-Nuremberg
Where did Bradenburg become an assistant professor at?
Fraunhofer Society
Who did Brandenburg work with in music compression?
1993
When did Brandenburg join the Fraunhofen Institute?
Tom's Diner
What was the name of the first song used to develop the MP3?
Suzanne Vega
Who was the artist of the first song used?
Karlheinz Brandenburg
Who adjusted the song?
scheme
The song was listened to multiple times to try and refine what?
subtlety
What particular aspect of the artists voice was he trying to preserve?
two
How many proposals were available in 1991?
Musicam
Other than ASPEC what was another proposal?
Netherlands
The Musicam format was proposed by Philips, based in which country?
error robustness
Which other quality alongside simplicty was key in selecting this proposal?
sub-band coding
What was the Musican format based on?
filter bank
What was only incorporated into Layer III and not Layers I or II?
Professor Musmann
Who was the chair that oversaw the editing of the standard?
Leon van de Kerkhof
Who's responsibility was it to edit the standard for Layer I?
Gerhard Stoll
Who's responsibility was it to edit the standard for Layer II?
ASPEC
What was the name given to the proposal?
the highest coding efficiency
What did the joint proposal provide?
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Other than Thomson Consumer Electronics, Fraunhofer Society and CNET, who else was a part of the joint proposal?
filter bank
What did the working group integrate their ideas with?
Layer 2
Where was the filter bank taken from?
ASPEC
What did the working group take ideas from?
MP3
What did the working group eventually create?
MP2 at 192 kbit/s
What quality were they hoping to match at 128 kbit/s?
1991
When were the algorithms approved?
1992
When were the approved algorithms finalized?
MPEG-1
What was the first started suite by MPEG?
ISO/IEC 11172-3
What was the official name of the internation standard?
1993
When was the international standard published?
second suite
Further work on MPEG was finalized as a part of which MPEG standard?
MPEG-2
What was the official name of ISO/IEC 13818-3 better known as?
half
At what rate were the new sampling rates defined in comparison to MPEG-1 Audio?
bitrate
Apart from cutting the frequency fidelity in half, what else was cut in half?
MPEG-2 Part 3
Allowing the coding of audio programs with more than two channels was a major aspect of what?
MPEG-2.5 audio
As MPEG-3 had a different meaning, what was the name given to the extension of MPEG-2?
Fraunhofer IIS
Where was this extension developed?
human speech
The new sampling rates widened the scope of MP3 to be able to include what?
MPEG-2.5
What is not an ISO recognized standard?
proprietary
As MPEG-2.5 is unofficial, it is considered what kind of extension to the MP3 format?
bit rate
What defines the compression efficiency of encoders?
input
Compression ratio depends on the sample rate and bit depth of which signal?
Compact Disc
What does CD stand for?
Digital Audio Tape (DAT) SP
Other than CD parameters, what else can be used as parameter references?
compression ratios
What can CD parameters be used as references for?
CD
What type of recording did Brandenburg use?
the MP3 compression algorithm
What did Brandenburg use the recording to refine?
monophonic
What word describes the nature of the song used?
The mother of MP3
As a result of her song being used, Suzanne Vega is sometimes referred to as what?
EBU V3/SQAM
Excerpts were taken from which reference compact disc to assess the subjective quality of the MPEG audio formats?
the ISO MPEG Audio committee
Who developed the reference simulation software?
C
Which language was the reference simulation software written in?
March 1994
When was the reference software approved?
1998
When did the reference software become an international standard?
real time hardware decoding
What could the reference software demonstrate?
7 July 1994
When was the first software MP3 encoder released?
l3enc
What was the name of the first software MP3 encoder?
.mp3
What was the filename extension?
WinPlay3
What was the name of the first real-time software MP3 player?