Automatically synthesizing sounds for different visual contents poses a challenge and there
is a strong need to facilitate the direct creation of realistic sounds. Different from previous …

This paper presents an index designed to predict music quality for individuals listening
through hearing aids. The index is “intrusive,” that is, it compares the degraded signal being …

Background Although cochlear implant (CI) users frequently report deterioration of sound
quality when listening to music, few methods exist to quantify these subjective claims …

Immensely popular video sharing websites such as YouTube have become the most
important sources of music information for Internet users and the most prominent platform for …

Gaps, dropouts and short clips of corrupted audio are a common problem and particularly
annoying when they occur in speech. This paper uses machine learning to regenerate gaps …

Modern telepresence systems constitute a new challenge for quality assessment of
multimedia signals. This paper focuses on the evaluation of the reverberation impairment for …

Modern telepresence systems constitute a new challenge for quality assessment of
multimedia signals. This paper focuses on the evaluation of the reverberation impairment for …

The article explores the design and use of the analyzer developed by the authors for
investigating the quality of compression, recording, transmission, and reproduction of …

Signals and Images: Advances and Results in Speech, Estimation, Compression,
Recognition, Filtering, and Processing cohesively combines contributions from field experts …

The occlusion effect is a common complaint from users of hearing aids with narrow or
unvented earmolds. This phenomenon makes the user hear his own voice muffled. In the …