PEMO-Q-A new method for objective audio quality assessment using a model of auditory perception

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1902-1911

  Huber, Rainer ^a   Kollmeier, Birger ^b  

^a HörTech GmbH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Audio quality; Auditory model; Objective quality assessment

Indexed keywords

AUDIO CODECS; AUDIO QUALITY; AUDIO SIGNALS; AUDITORY MODEL; AUDITORY PERCEPTIONS; BIT RATES; COGNITIVE ASPECTS; CROSS-CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; DEVELOPMENT PHASE; DISTORTED SIGNALS; GOOD CORRELATIONS; HIGH QUALITIES; INTERNAL REPRESENTATIONS; INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNIONS; ITU-R RECOMMENDATIONS; LARGE DATABASE; LINEAR DISTORTIONS; MOVING PICTURES EXPERTS GROUPS; OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENTS; OBJECTIVE QUALITY ASSESSMENT; PERCEPTUAL SIMILARITIES; PERIPHERAL AUDITORY PROCESSING; PREDICTION ACCURACIES; QUALITY MEASURES; QUALITY PREDICTIONS; QUANTITATIVE MODELS; REFERENCE SIGNALS; SPEECH QUALITIES; SUBJECTIVE LISTENING TESTS; SUBJECTIVE QUALITY RATINGS; TESTED DATUM;

MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS; PULSE MODULATION;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 38349143908     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2006.883259     Document Type: Article

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