Feature analysis for quality assessment of reverberated speech

2009 IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, MMSP '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  De Lima, Amaro A ^a   De M Prego, Thiago ^a   Netto, Sergio L ^a   Lee, Bowon ^b   Said, Amir ^b   Schafer, Ronald W ^b   Kalker, Ton ^b   Fozunbal, Majid ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION; ENERGY RATIO; FEATURE ANALYSIS; MEAN OPINION SCORES; PERCEPTUAL EVALUATION; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; REVERBERATION EFFECTS; REVERBERATION TIME; ROOM IMPULSE RESPONSE; SPEECH SIGNALS; SUBJECTIVE TESTS;

ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; IMPULSE RESPONSE; NEURAL NETWORKS; QUALITY CONTROL; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

MULTIMEDIA SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 74349126603     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MMSP.2009.5293326     Document Type: Conference Paper

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