An objective metric of human subjective audio quality optimized for a wide range of audio fidelities

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 129-136

  Creusere, Charles D ^a   Kallakuri, Kumar D ^b   Vanam, Rahul ^c  

^a New Mexico State University   (United States)

^b HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS   (United States)

^c University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Audio quality metrics; Metric optimization; Objective metrics; Perceptual audio analysis; Quality evaluation

Indexed keywords

AUDIO QUALITY METRICS; METRIC OPTIMIZATION; OBJECTIVE METRICS; PERCEPTUAL AUDIO ANALYSIS; QUALITY EVALUATION;

OPTIMIZATION;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 63649157277     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2007.907571     Document Type: Article

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