The Modified Discrete Cosine Transform (MDCT)
摘要
The MDCT is a lapped, critically sampled cosine-modulated filter bank that maps 2N real input samples to N real coefficients per block. With properly chosen windows, adjacent blocks overlap by 50% and time-domain aliasing cancels (TDAC), yielding perfect reconstruction (PR). This chapter derives the MDCT from cosine modulation, expresses its first-order polyphase structure, and gives practical window choices and Python snippets for verification.