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On the Effect of Artificial Distortions on Objective Performance Measures for Dialog Enhancement

Authors: Torcoli, Matteo; Uhle, Christian

AES Convention 141 · Paper 9681 · September 2016

Abstract

The objective evaluation of dialog enhancement systems using computational methods is desired to complement the subjective evaluation using listening tests. It remains a challenge because for this application neither were performance measures specifically designed, nor were existing measures systematically analyzed. This work investigates eight objective performance measurement tools originally developed for audio and speech coding, speech enhancement, or source separation. To this end, a set of basic distortions is presented and used to simulate degradations that are common in dialog enhancement. The effect of the artificial distortions on the performance measures is quantified by means of a so-called response score that is proposed here.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 141
AES Convention
141
Paper number
9681
Publication date
September 6, 2016
Session subject
Signal Processing
Affiliation
Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, Erlangen, Germany (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper