Objective measurement of perceived auditory quality in multichannel audio compression coding systems

AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

Volumn 56, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 3-16

  Choi, Inyong ^b   Shinn Cunningham, Barbara G ^c   Chon, Sang Bae ^b   Sung, Koeng Mo ^a,b  

^a AES ^*

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS; QUALITY MANAGEMENT; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; STATISTICS; STEREOPHONIC BROADCASTING;

INTERAURAL CROSS-CORRELATION COEFFICIENT (IACC) DISTORTIONS; INTERAURAL LEVEL DIFFERENCE (ILD) DISTORTIONS; INTERAURAL TIME DIFFERENCE (ITD) DISTORTIONS;

AUDIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 41149117198     PISSN: 15494950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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