Subjective and Objective Assessment of Perceived Audio Quality of Current Digital Audio Broadcasting Systems and Web-Casting Applications
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This paper investigates the impact of different audio codecs typically deployed in current digital audio broadcasting (DAB) systems and web-casting applications, which represent a main source of quality impairment in these systems and applications, on the quality perceived by the end user. Both subjective and objective assessments are used. Two different audio quality prediction models, namely Perceptual Evaluation of Audio Quality (PEAQ) and Perceptual Objective Listening Quality Assessment (POLQA) Music, are evaluated by comparing the predictions with subjectively obtained grades. The results show that the degradations introduced by the typical lossy audio codecs deployed in current DAB systems and web-casting applications operating at the lowest bit rate typically used in these distribution systems and applications seriously impact the subjective audio quality perceived by the end user. Furthermore, it is shown that a retrained POLQA Music provides the best overall correlations between predicted objective measurements and subjective scores allowing to predict the final perceived quality with good accuracy when scores are averaged over a small set of musical fragments ( \mathbf {R = 0.95} ). © 1963-12012 IEEE.
Topics
Digital audio broadcasting (DAB) systemsObjective audio quality assessmentPerceptual Evaluation of Audio QualityPerceptual Objective Listening Quality AssessmentSubjective audio quality assessmentAudio acousticsAudio signal processingAuditionBroadcastingPrinting machineryQuality controlRadio broadcastingSocial networkingSound reproductionAudio quality assessmentsListening qualitiesWeb castingAudio systems
TNO Identifier
528223
Source
IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, 61(3), pp. 407-415.
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages
407-415
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