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In the realm of media technology, digital humans have gained prominence due to rapid advancements in computer technology. However, the manual modeling and control required for the majority of digital humans pose significant obstacles to…

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There has been significant research effort developing neural-network-based predictors of SQ in recent years. While a primary objective has been to develop non-intrusive, i.e.~reference-free, metrics to assess the performance of SE systems,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-05 George Close , Kris Hong , Thomas Hain , Stefan Goetze

The Talking Face Generation task has enormous potential for various applications in digital humans and agents, etc. Singing, as a common facial movement second only to talking, can be regarded as a universal language across ethnicities and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Zhilin Gao , Yunhao Li , Sijing Wu , Yucheng Zhu , Huiyu Duan , Guangtao Zhai

Software Quality Assurance (SQA) planning aims to define proactive plans, such as defining maximum file size, to prevent the occurrence of software defects in future releases. To aid this, defect prediction models have been proposed to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Dilini Rajapaksha , Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , Jirayus Jiarpakdee , Christoph Bergmeir , John Grundy , Wray Buntine

Action Quality Assessment (AQA) -- the ability to quantify the quality of human motion, actions, or skill levels and provide feedback -- has far-reaching implications in areas such as low-cost physiotherapy, sports training, and workforce…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Hao Yin , Paritosh Parmar , Daoliang Xu , Yang Zhang , Tianyou Zheng , Weiwei Fu

Software Quality Assurance (SQA) is critical for delivering reliable, secure, and efficient software products. The Software Quality Assurance Process aims to provide assurance that work products and processes comply with predefined…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Avinash Patil

AI solutions seem to appear in any and all application domains. As AI becomes more pervasive, the importance of quality assurance increases. Unfortunately, there is no consensus on what artificial intelligence means and interpretations…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Markus Borg

This study focuses on the evaluation of the Open Question Answering (Open-QA) task, which can directly estimate the factuality of large language models (LLMs). Current automatic evaluation methods have shown limitations, indicating that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Cunxiang Wang , Sirui Cheng , Qipeng Guo , Yuanhao Yue , Bowen Ding , Zhikun Xu , Yidong Wang , Xiangkun Hu , Zheng Zhang , Yue Zhang

We participated in track 2 of the VoiceMOS Challenge 2024, which aimed to predict the mean opinion score (MOS) of singing samples. Our submission secured the first place among all participating teams, excluding the official baseline. In…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Yu-Fei Shi , Yang Ai , Ye-Xin Lu , Hui-Peng Du , Zhen-Hua Ling

The advent of AI has influenced many aspects of human life, from self-driving cars and intelligent chatbots to text-based image and video generation models capable of creating realistic images and videos based on user prompts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Abhijay Ghildyal , Yuanhan Chen , Saman Zadtootaghaj , Nabajeet Barman , Alan C. Bovik

Automatic subjective speech quality assessment (SSQA) traditionally estimates speech quality on an utterance or system level. While this resolution was adequate for older transmission or synthesis systems that produced speech signals of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-21 Michael Kuhlmann , Tobias Cord-Landwehr , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Software with natural-language user interfaces has an ever-increasing importance. However, the quality of the included Question Answering (QA) functionality is still not sufficient regarding the number of questions that are answered…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Aleksandr Gashkov , Aleksandr Perevalov , Maria Eltsova , Andreas Both

Question Answering (QA) is a challenging topic since it requires tackling the various difficulties of natural language understanding. Since evaluation is important not only for identifying the strong and weak points of the various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Katerina Papantoniou , Yannis Tzitzikas

The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) technology has propelled audio-driven talking head generation, gaining considerable research attention for practical applications. However, performance evaluation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Weixia Zhang , Chengguang Zhu , Jingnan Gao , Yichao Yan , Guangtao Zhai , Xiaokang Yang

Designing a speech quality assessment (SQA) system for estimating mean-opinion-score (MOS) of multi-rate speech with varying sampling frequency (16-48 kHz) is a challenging task. The challenge arises due to the limited availability of a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Fengyuan Cao , Xinyu Liang , Fredrik Cumlin , Victor Ungureanu , Chandan K. A. Reddy , Christian Schuldt , Saikat Chatterjee

Objective speech quality assessment is central to telephony, VoIP, and streaming systems, where large volumes of degraded audio must be monitored and optimized at scale. Classical metrics such as PESQ and POLQA approximate human mean…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Mahathir Monjur , Shahriar Nirjon

Retrieval-augmented generation is increasingly effective in answering scientific questions from literature, but many state-of-the-art systems are expensive and closed-source. We introduce Ai2 Scholar QA, a free online scientific question…

To achieve successful deployment of AI research, it is crucial to understand the demands of the industry. In this paper, we present the results of a survey conducted with professional audio engineers, in order to determine research…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-11 Sangshin Oh , Minsung Kang , Hyeongi Moon , Keunwoo Choi , Ben Sangbae Chon

Audio quality assessment is critical for assessing the perceptual realism of sounds. However, the time and expense of obtaining ''gold standard'' human judgments limit the availability of such data. For AR&VR, good perceived sound quality…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-27 Pranay Manocha , Anurag Kumar , Buye Xu , Anjali Menon , Israel D. Gebru , Vamsi K. Ithapu , Paul Calamia

The world is becoming increasingly complex, both in terms of the rich sources of data we have access to as well as in terms of the statistical and computational methods we can use on those data. These factors create an ever-increasing risk…

Computation · Statistics 2021-08-09 Ricardo Sanchez , Beth Ann Griffin , Joseph Pane , Daniel McCaffrey