A fast MATLAB executable (MEX) compilation of the PESQ measure

After having spent a good while looking for a working copy of the Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality measure implemented in MATLAB, I ended up using the readily available “wrapper” functions found on the MATLAB file exchange site. While these wrappers work a treat they are a bit slow as they require a call to the system to run the PESQ binary file. The PESQ binary file is compiled from the source code found on the ITU site for the PESQ standard. The source code is written in C which MATLAB supports for its MATLAB executable (MEX) compilations. That was what then prompt me to look for a MEX compiled version of the PESQ measure but to my surprise I couldn’t find any. I managed to get the ITU standards’ source code compiled and working in a MEX function and I will go through the few steps required to do it. Continue reading A fast MATLAB executable (MEX) compilation of the PESQ measure

The Speech Transmission Index (STI) for MATLAB

There are a few robust algorithms available to objectively measure the intelligibility of speech. They compare what is heard by a listener to the information that was transmitted by the talker, however, only one of these available algorithms works in reverberant rooms and at the time I was looking for an implementation for MATLAB, I couldn’t find any, zilch. So, I decided to code it from scratch myself and will show you how to do it step by step. Continue reading The Speech Transmission Index (STI) for MATLAB

Paper: An Efficient Approach to Dynamically Weighted Multizone Wideband Reproduction of Speech Soundfields

Presented at the 2015 IEEE China Summit & International Conference on Signal and Information Processing (ChinaSIP) this work looks at efficiently determining multizone soundfield zone weights using bi-linear interpolation of sparsely simulated soundfields.

PESQ Results - An Efficient Approach to Dynamically Weighted Multizone Wideband Reproduction of Speech Soundfields
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Paper: Analysing the Quality of Experience of Multisensory Media from Measurements of Physiological Responses

At the 6th International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX) in Singapore we presented this paper exploring QoE of mulsemedia using biosensors.

Vote Results - Analysing the Quality of Experience of Multisensory Media from Measurements of Physiological Responses
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