PEAQ - the ITU standard for objective measurement of perceived audio quality

AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

Volumn 48, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 3-29

  Thiede, Thilo ^a,i   Treurniet, William C ^b   Bitto, Roland ^c   Schmidmer, Christian ^d   Sporer, Thomas ^c   Beerends, John G ^e   Colomes, Catherine ^f   Keyhl, Michael ^d   Stoll, Gerhard ^g   Brandenburg, Karlheinz ^c   Feiten, Bernhard ^h  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Industry Canada   (Canada)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS IIS   (Germany)

^d OPTICOM   (Germany)

^e KPN RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^f Ctr Commun d'Etud Telediffusion T   (France)

^g Institut fur Rundfunktechnik Munchen   (Germany)

^h DEUTSCHE TELEKOM LABORATORIES   (Germany)

ⁱ Tøpholm and Westermann ApS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CODES (STANDARDS); DATA COMPRESSION; DIGITAL STORAGE; SPEECH CODING;

AUDIO SIGNALS; HIGH QUALITY DIGITAL AUDIO; PERCEIVED AUDIO QUALITY; PERCEPTUAL CODING;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0033901825     PISSN: 00047554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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