Everything about Audio Lossless Coding

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Audio Lossless CodingA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Lossless audio codec based on CNN, weighted tree and arithmetic encoding (LACCWA)Influential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Information and Communications SecurityThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Perceptual audio coding using adaptive pre- and post-filters and lossless compressionCited 58 times
5. Go sideways: Advanced Audio CodingA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: List of codecsA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Perceptual audio coding using adaptive pre- and post-filters and lossless compression

  G.D.T. Schuller, Bin Yu, Dawei Huang · 2002 · IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing · 58 citations

• Cascaded RLS–LMS Prediction in MPEG-4 Lossless Audio Coding

  Haibin Huang, P. Franti, Dongyan Huang · 2008 · IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing · 36 citations

• Lossless Audio Coding Using the IntMDCT and Rounding Error Shaping

  Y. Yokotani, R. Geiger, G.D.T. Schuller · 2006 · IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing · 12 citations

• Low noise reversible MDCT (RMDCT) and its application in progressive-to-lossless embedded audio coding

  Jin Li · 2005 · IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing · 10 citations

• Context-based adaptive arithmetic coding in time and frequency domain for the lossless compression of audio coding parameters at variable rate

  Jing Wang, Xuan Ji, Shenghui Zhao · 2013 · EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing · 8 citations

• Comparison of Lossless Compression Schemes for WAV Audio Data 16-Bit Between Huffman and Coding Arithmetic

  Tonny Hidayat, Mohd Hafiz Zakaria, Naim Che Pee · 2019 · International journal of simulation: systems, science & technology · 7 citations

• Investigation of Lossless Audio Compression using IEEE 1857.2 Advanced Audio Coding

  Teddy Surya Gunawan, Muhammad Khalif Mat Zain, Fathiah Abdul Muin · 2017 · Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science · 6 citations

• Fixed Quality Layered Audio Based on Scalable Lossless Coding

  Te Li, S. Rahardja, Soo Ngee Koh · 2009 · IEEE Transactions on Multimedia · 3 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Lossless audio codec based on CNN, weighted tree and arithmetic encoding (LACCWA)

  Asish Debnath, Uttam Kr. Mondal · 2023 · Multimedia Tools and Applications · 7 citations

• Lossless audio CODEC using non-repeated dynamic block encoding

  Asish Debnath, Uttam Kr. Mondal · 2024 · International Journal of Information Technology · 6 citations

• Enhanced security in lossless audio encryption using zigzag scrambling, DNA coding, SHA-256, and hopfield networks: a practical vlc system implementation

  Sorel Bagio Nono Fotso, William Nodem Atchoffo, Armand C. Nzeukou · 2024 · Multimedia Tools and Applications · 4 citations

• Wavelet Decompositions, Hierarchical Encoding and Convolutional Neural Network Integrated Lossless Audio Codec

  Asish Debnath, Uttam Kr. Mondal · 2025 · Informatica · 0 citations

• SRLA: A lossless audio codec focused on compression ratio and decoding speed

  Taiyo Mineo, Shouno Hayaru · 2026 · Multimedia Tools and Applications · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Information and Communications SecurityTat Wing Chim · 2012
• Multimedia TechnologiesAshok Banerji, Ananda Mohan Ghosh · 2011
• Foundations of computer scienceBehrouz A. Forouzan · 2002

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