Audio quality assessment techniques-A review, and recent developments

Signal Processing

Volumn 89, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1489-1500

  Campbell, Dermot ^a   Jones, Edward ^a   Glavin, Martin ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Audio; PEAQ; Perceptual quality assessment

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; DIGITAL MULTIMEDIA BROADCASTING; DIGITAL RADIO; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; RADIO BROADCASTING; SOUND REPRODUCTION; VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

AUDIO; AUDIO QUALITY ASSESSMENTS; INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS UNIONS; MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGIES; PEAQ; PERCEPTUAL EVALUATION OF AUDIO QUALITIES; PERCEPTUAL QUALITY; VOICE OVER INTERNET PROTOCOL;

AUDIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 64549148370     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2009.02.015     Document Type: Review

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