Quality assessment for listening-room compensation algorithms

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2450-2453

  Goetze, Stefan ^a   Albertin, Eugen ^a   Kallinger, Markus ^b   Mertins, Alfred ^c   Kammeyer, Karl Dirk ^d  

^a FRAUNHOFER IDMT   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS IIS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dereverberation; Equalization; Listening room compensation; Quality assessment

Indexed keywords

EQUALIZERS; QUALITY CONTROL;

COMPENSATION ALGORITHM; DEREVERBERATION; EQUALISATION; LISTENING-ROOM COMPENSATIONS; OBJECTIVE MEASURE; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; ROOM IMPULSE RESPONSE; SPEECH DEREVERBERATION; SUBJECTIVE LISTENING TEST; TECHNICAL MEASURES;

IMPULSE RESPONSE;

EID: 78049368127     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2010.5496301     Document Type: Conference Paper

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