On objective assessment of audio quality — A review

Measurement of audio quality is of fundamental importance for numerous speech and audio processing applications, where the goal of quality assessment algorithms is to evaluate the quality in agreement with human's subjective feelings of audio quality. This paper includes a brief summary of the development of intrusive and non-intrusive audio quality assessment algorithms and outlines recent advancements, especially some new topics to be investigated presently. Moreover, according to the existing problems in this field, discussion of the future trend and challenges is also given.

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