Objective Measurement of Music Quality Using Inter-Band Relationship Analysis

Fenton S, Fazenda B, Wakefield J. Objective Measurement of Music Quality Using Inter-Band Relationship Analysis. In: AES Convention 130. Audio Engineering Society; 2011. Paper 8394. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=15861

@inproceedings{Fenton2011_15861,
  author = {Fenton, Steven and Fazenda, Bruno and Wakefield, Jonathan},
  title = {{Objective Measurement of Music Quality Using Inter-Band Relationship Analysis}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 130},
  note = {Paper 8394},
  year = {2011},
  month = may,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=15861}
}

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AB  - This paper describes and evaluates an objective measurement that grades the quality of a complex musical signal. The authors have previously identified a potential correlation between inter-band dynamics and the subjective quality of produced music excerpts. This paper describes the previously presented Inter-Band Relationship (IBR) descriptor and extends this work by testing with real-world music excerpts and a greater number of listening subjects. A high degree of correlation is observed between the Mean Subject Scores (MSS) and the objective IBR descriptor suggesting it could be used as an additional model output variable (MOV) to describe produced music quality. The method lends itself to real-time implementation and therefore can be exploited within mixing, mastering and monitoring tools.
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