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Assessing the perceptual quality of synthetic speech is crucial for guiding the development and refinement of speech generation models. However, it has traditionally relied on human subjective ratings such as the Mean Opinion Score (MOS),…

In online conferencing applications, estimating the perceived quality of an audio signal is crucial to ensure high quality of experience for the end user. The most reliable way to assess the quality of a speech signal is through human…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-24 Bastiaan Tamm , Rik Vandenberghe , Hugo Van hamme

In a subjective experiment to evaluate the perceptual audiovisual quality of multimedia and television services, raw opinion scores collected from test subjects are often noisy and unreliable. To produce the final mean opinion scores (MOS),…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Zhi Li , Christos G. Bampis , Lukáš Krasula , Lucjan Janowski , Ioannis Katsavounidis

Modern speech quality prediction models are trained on audio data resampled to a specific sampling rate. When faced with higher-rate audio at test time, these models can produce biased scores. We introduce HighRateMOS, the first…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-30 Wenze Ren , Yi-Cheng Lin , Wen-Chin Huang , Ryandhimas E. Zezario , Szu-Wei Fu , Sung-Feng Huang , Erica Cooper , Haibin Wu , Hung-Yu Wei , Hsin-Min Wang , Hung-yi Lee , Yu Tsao

Video Coding for Machines (VCM) aims to compress visual signals for machine analysis. However, existing methods only consider a few machines, neglecting the majority. Moreover, the machine's perceptual characteristics are not leveraged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Qi Zhang , Shanshe Wang , Xinfeng Zhang , Chuanmin Jia , Zhao Wang , Siwei Ma , Wen Gao

Immersive video offers the freedom to navigate inside virtualized environment. Instead of streaming the bulky immersive videos entirely, a viewport (also referred to as field of view, FoV) adaptive streaming is preferred. We often stream…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Shaowei Xie , Qiu Shen , Yiling Xu , Qiaojian Qian , Shaowei Wang , Zhan Ma , Wenjun Zhang

Perceptual speech quality is an important performance metric for teleconferencing applications. The mean opinion score (MOS) is standardized for the perceptual evaluation of speech quality and is obtained by asking listeners to rate the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Haleh Akrami , Hannes Gamper

In this letter, we study the reference signal-aided channel estimation concept which is a crucial requirement to address the realistic performance of spatial media-based modulation (SMBM) systems where the radio frequency mirrors are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-29 Akif Kabacı , Mehmet Başaran , Hakan Ali Çırpan

Estimating the perceived quality of an audio signal is critical for many multimedia and audio processing systems. Providers strive to offer optimal and reliable services in order to increase the user quality of experience (QoE). In this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-19 Anderson R. Avila , Hannes Gamper , Chandan Reddy , Ross Cutler , Ivan Tashev , Johannes Gehrke

The ability to reliably predict the future quality of a wireless channel, as seen by the media access control layer, is a key enabler to improve performance of future industrial networks that do not rely on wires. Knowing in advance how…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Gabriele Formis , Stefano Scanzio , Gianluca Cena , Adriano Valenzano

In rate-distortion optimization, the encoder settings are determined by maximizing a reconstruction quality measure subject to a constraint on the bit rate. One of the main challenges of this approach is to define a quality measure that can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-11 Qi Liu , Hui Yuan , Raouf Hamzaoui , Honglei Su , Junhui Hou , Huan Yang

Video resolutions used in variety of media are constantly rising. While manufacturers struggle to perfect their screens it is also important to ensure high quality of displayed image. Overall quality can be measured using Mean Opinion Score…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Maciej Wielgosz , Michał Karwatowski , Marcin Pietroń , Kazimierz Wiatr

Subjective video quality assessment is crucial for optimizing streaming and compression, yet traditional protocols face limitations in capturing nuanced perceptual differences and ensuring reliable user input. We propose an integrated…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Kumar Rahul , Sriram Sethuraman , Andrew Segall , Yixu Chen

In the mobile communication field, some of the video applications boosted the interest of robust methods for video quality assessment. Out of all existing methods, We Preferred, No Reference Video Quality Assessment is the one which is most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Amitesh Kumar Singam , Benny Lövström , Wlodek J. Kulesza

In an adaptive bitrate streaming application, the efficiency of video compression and the encoded video quality depend on both the video codec and the quality metric used to perform encoding optimization. The development of such a quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-11 Yixu Chen , Zaixi Shang , Hai Wei , Yongjun Wu , Sriram Sethuraman

The high feature dimensionality is a challenge in music emotion recognition. There is no common consensus on a relation between audio features and emotion. The MER system uses all available features to recognize emotion; however, this is…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Le Cai , Sam Ferguson , Haiyan Lu , Gengfa Fang

In this paper, we address the well-known image quality assessment problem but in contrast from existing approaches that predict image quality independently for every images, we propose to jointly model different images depicting the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Marcelin Tworski , Stéphane Lathuilière

Performance evaluation in multimedia retrieval, as in the information retrieval domain at large, relies heavily on retrieval experiments, employing a broad range of techniques and metrics. These can involve human-in-the-loop and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Loris Sauter , Ralph Gasser , Heiko Schuldt , Abraham Bernstein , Luca Rossetto

Perceptual quality assessment for synthesized textures is a challenging task. In this paper, we propose a training-free reduced-reference (RR) objective quality assessment method that quantifies the perceived quality of synthesized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-30 S. Alireza Golestaneh , Lina Karam

The datasets of most image quality assessment studies contain ratings on a categorical scale with five levels, from bad (1) to excellent (5). For each stimulus, the number of ratings from 1 to 5 is summarized and given in the form of the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Dietmar Saupe , Krzysztof Rusek , David Hägele , Daniel Weiskopf , Lucjan Janowski