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@article{hines2015visqolaudio,
  title        = {ViSQOLAudio: An objective audio quality metric for low bitrate codecs},
  author       = {Hines, Andrew and Gillen, Eoin and Kelly, Damien and Skoglund, Jan and Kokaram,
                  Anil and Harte, Naomi},
  journal      = {The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America},
  volume       = {137},
  number       = {6},
  pages        = {EL449--EL455},
  year         = {2015},
  publisher    = {Acoustical Society of America},
  doi          = {10.1121/1.4921674}
}

Description

Streaming services seek to optimise their use of bandwidth across audio and visual channels to maximise the quality of experience for users. This letter evaluates whether objective quality metrics can predict the audio quality for music encoded at low bitrates by comparing objective predictions with results from listener tests. Three objective metrics were benchmarked: PEAQ, POLQA and VISQOLAudio. The results demonstrate objective metrics designed for speech quality assessment have a strong potential for quality assessment of low bitrate audio codecs.