Abstract: An apparatus for processing audio includes at least one processor configured to obtain a down-mixed audio signal from a bitstream, to obtain down-mixing-related information from the bitstream, to de-mix the down-mixing-related information by using down-mixing-related information, and to reconstruct an audio signal including at least one frame based on the de-mixed audio signal. The down-mixing-related information is information generated in units of frames by using an audio scene type.

Abstract: According to various embodiments of the disclosure, an audio processing apparatus includes at least one processor configured to execute one or more instructions to obtain a second audio signal down-mixed from at least one first audio signal, obtain information related to error removal for the at least one first audio signal, de-mix the at least one first audio signal from the down-mixed second audio signal, and reconstruct the at least one first audio signal by applying the information related to the error removal for the at least one first audio signal to the at least one first audio signal de-mixed from the second audio signal. The information related to the error removal having been generated using at least one of an original signal power of the at least one first audio signal or a second signal power of the at least one first audio signal after decoding.

Abstract: An audio processing apparatus may obtain second audio signals corresponding to channels included in a second channel group from first audio signals corresponding to channels included in a first channel group, downsample at least one third audio signal corresponding to at least one channel identified based on a correlation with the second channel group from among the channels included in the first channel group, by using an artificial intelligence (AI) model, and generate a bitstream including the second audio signals corresponding to the channels included in the second channel group and the downsampled at least one third audio signal. The first channel group includes a channel group of an original audio signal, and the second channel group is constructed by combining at least two channels from among the channels included in the first channel group.