Method for encoding and decoding multi-channel audio signal and apparatus thereof

A computer-readable recording medium selected from the group consisting of a non-volatile computer-readable medium, a volatile computer-readable medium, and combinations thereof, the computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to perform the operations of:

• receiving an audio signal through a computer system connected to a network;
• extracting a down-mix signal and additional information from the audio signal;
• extracting compensation information from the additional information, the compensation information indicating whether a compensation parameter is applied to a channel of a first multi-channel audio signal, the first multi-channel audio signal being reconstructed based on the down-mix signal and spatial information including first spatial information and second spatial information;
• extracting the first spatial information from the additional information, the first spatial information including information on inter-channel cross correlation (ICC);
• deriving the second spatial information based the extracted first spatial information and the down-mix signal, the second spatial information including at least one of channel level difference (CLD) and information on channel prediction coefficient (CPC);
• extracting, from the additional information, the compensation parameter relating an envelope of the down-mix signal to an envelope of each channel of a second multi-channel audio signal when the compensation information indicates that the compensation parameter is applied to the channel of the first multi-channel audio signal, the second multi-channel audio signal being used to generate the down-mix signal;
• reconstructing the first multi-channel audio signal based on the down-mix signal and the spatial information including the first spatial information and the second spatial information;
• compensating the envelope of each channel of the first multi-channel audio signal based on the compensation parameter;
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• transmitting the compensated first multi-channel audio signal to a device.