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The Influence of Cross-Modal Interaction on Audio-Visual Speech Quality Perception

Authors: Rimell, Andrew N.; Hollier, Michael P.; Voelcker, R. M.

AES Convention 105 · Paper 4791 · September 1998

Abstract

Combined audio-visual services are expected to become a feature of the next generation of telecommunication systems. Current systems apply individual perceptually motivated data reduction to the audio and video. A system which applies perceptually motivated data reduction to the combined audio-visual content may provide greater data reduction, whilst maintaining high quality service over low bit-rate transmission media. To be able to design such bimodal codecs, and optimize overall performance, (through the use of low bit-rate codecs),it is important to understand the trade-offs between the quality of the audio and the video. This paper compares the results of a complimentary pair of subjective experiments designed to investigate the differences between visual speech and non-visual speech quality perception and quality mismatch. Conclusions are drawn about the variation in cross-modal interaction, and particularly speech quality perception, for different audio-visual content. The results obtained will be used in the design of a bi-model perceptual model.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 105
AES Convention
105
Paper number
4791
Publication date
September 6, 1998
Session subject
Psychoacoustics, Perception, and Listening Tests
Affiliation
BT Laboratories, Ipswich, Suffolk, UK (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper