Initial developments of an objective method for the prediction of basic audio quality for surround audio recordings

Audio Engineering Society - 120th Convention Spring Preprints 2006

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages 1320-1336

  George, Sunish ^a   Zielinski, Slawomir ^a   Rumsey, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

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AUDIO CHANNELS; AUDIO QUALITY; AVERAGE ERRORS; BANDLIMITED; INTERAURAL CROSS-CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; LISTENING TESTS; OBJECTIVE METHODS; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; SPECTRAL DESCRIPTORS;

AUDIO RECORDINGS; LINEAR REGRESSION;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84866496788     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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