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Technical Committee

Measurement & Sound Quality

Mission Statement

The committee works to ensure that the members of the AES are kept up to date on the latest advances and practices in psychoacoustics, the evaluation of sound field recording, coding and reproduction systems, and psychometrics. This includes all aspects of listening tests and modelling of perception in computers.

Many quality assessment tests in the past focused on comparison with an explicitly given reference. In AR and VR applications in general there is no reference and new methods have to be found.

Due to the fact that the products created by audio engineers are target to human receivers and not to measurement systems, listening tests are the most important tools.

Vice Chair

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  • Areas of Concentration

    1. Psychoacoustics
    2. Evaluation of Sound Field Recording and Reproduction Systems
    3. Psychometrics
    4. Perceptual Quality Assessment
    5. Attributes and Dimension of Audio Quality
    6. Perceptual Measurement Schemes
    7. Assessment of Immersive Audio

    Current Areas Of Work

    • Perceptual evaluation of spatial sound fields
    • Multi-dimensional testing and statistics (everything beyond just basic audio quality)
    • Head phone testing
    • Speech intelligibility
    • Perception of vibrations
    • Low frequency perception (architecture, musical instruments, reproduction)
    • CD with auditory examples of artifacts produced by modern audio codecs, esp. also concerning spatial artifacts (extension of “Audio Codecs – what to listen for” originally produced by TC-CAS)
    • Evaluation of AR and VR systems
    • Testing without reference
    • Perceptual attributes for immersive audio

    These documents do not necessarily express the official position of the AES on the issues discussed at these meetings, and only represent the views of committee members participating in the discussion. Any unauthorized use of these publications is prohibited. Authorization must be obtained from the Executive Director of the AES.

    2022-6-6     Minutes from 152nd Convention
    Description: Report from the TC PSEAS at the 152nd Convention

    2022-6-2     Minutes European AES Convention 2022
    Description: TC-PSEAS – Minutes from European AES Convention 2022 (2022-05-31)

    2016-9-25     Minutes From 140th Convention
    Description: Minutes from TC PSEAS from 140th Convention, Paris, June 2016

    2015-5-11     Minutes from 138th Convention
    Description: TC PSEAS Minutes from the 138th Convention

    2015-5-11     Minutes from 137th Convention
    Description: TC PSEAS Minutes from the 137th Convention

    2012-5-15     Minutes_From_132Convention
    Description: TC PSEAS Minutes from the 132nd Convention

    2004-11-3     Minutes, 117th Convention
    Description: Notes from the 117th Convention, San Francisco, Oct. 2004

    2003-12-24     Minutes, 115th convention
    Description: Minutes from TC_PAES meeting at the 2003 AES convention, New York

    2003-5-6     Minutes, 114th Convention
    Description: Meeting Notes from the 114th convention

    2002-12-18     Minutes, 113th Convention
    Description: Notes from the TC meeting on Perception and Subjective Evaluation, AES 113th Convention

    2002-1-20     Minutes fra NYC – 01
    Description: Minutes from the meeting in NYC 2001

    2001-2-18     Audiometric tests at Conventions
    Description: This is an addition from Bob Schulein to the minutes from our LA meeting

    2001-2-4     Minutes from LA convention 2000
    Description: Chairmans report from the 7th meeting of the TC on Perception and subjective evaluation of audio signals held at the 109th Convention in LA 2000

    2000-3-26     Minutes from Paris 2000
    Description: Minutes from the fifth meeting of the Committee on Perception and subjective evaluation of audio signals

    1999-10-20     Minutes from NY Convention meeting 1999
    Description: Chairman’s report from the meeting at the NY Convention 1999

    1999-6-6     Chairman’s report from Munich ’99
    Description: Meeting minutes from the fourth meeting of TC on Perception and Subjective Evaluation of Audio Signals

    1999-1-15     Minutes from SF ’98
    Description: Minutes from the meeting of TC on Perception and Evaluation of Audio Signals, San Francisco ’98 Convention

    1999-1-15     Minutes from Amst ’98
    Description: Minutes from the meeting of TC on Perception and Evaluation of Audio Signals, Amsterdam ’98 Convention

    1999-1-15     Minutes from NY ’97
    Description: Minutes from the meeting of TC on Perception and Evaluation of Audio Signals

    1999-9-7     List of auditory demonstration CD’s
    Description: This document contains a list of CD’s with sound examples for auditory demonstrations.

    2003-12-24     Tutorial Seminar: Listening Tests in Practice
    Description: Slide presentations from the tutorial session chaired by Nick Zacharov at the AES 115th Convention. 13 Oct. 2003

    Community Member

    Bernd Edler
    Eiichi Miyasaka
    Ivan Stamac
    Jan Berg
    Marc Ihle
    W.A. Deutsch
    Sean Olive
    Thomas Sporer
    Russell Mason
    William L Martens
    Sylvian Choisel
    Yesenia Lacouture Parodi
    Marcin Lewandowski
    Alexander Lindau, Dr.
    Judith Liebetrau
    Brecht De Man
    Samuel Hoch
    Stephanie Bertet
    Omid Khonsaripour
    Tobias Fritsch
    David Guade
    Francis Rumsey
    Marshall Buck
    Nick Zacharov
    Francois Ragenard
    Poul Ladegaard
    Durand Begault
    Scott Norcross
    Gaeten Lorho
    Esben Skovenborg
    Tim Gladwyn
    Rafael Kassier
    Andrzej Miskiewicz
    Shusen WANG
    Linda Gedemer
    Wyatt Harbaugh
    Ville Sivonen
    Aleksander Valjamae
    Matteo Torcoli
    Dohyeon Son
    Douglas McKinnie
    Mendel Kleiner
    Peter Schreiner III
    Heiko Purnhagen
    Gilbert Soulodre
    Soren Bech
    Todd Welti
    Natanya Ford
    Bruno Fazenda
    Jon Boley
    Jonny Jensen
    David Prince
    Hyunkook Lee
    Frederik Nagel
    Jan Zera
    Tacksung Choi
    Atushi Marui
    Kent Walker
    Darlene Williamson
    Giuseppe Parolo

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