Towards the Development of Preference Models accounting for the Impact of Music Production Techniques

J Skowronek, L Nagel, C Hold, H Wierstorf, A Raake, "Towards the Development of Preference Models accounting for the Impact of Music Production Techniques," in Fortschritte der Akustik - DAGA 2017, (2017). [ paper ]

Bibtex

@misc{Skowronek2017,
    title     = {{Towards the Development of Preference Models accounting
                  for the Impact of Music Production Techniques}},
    author    = {Skowronek, Janto and Nagel, Lukas and Hold, Christoph
                 and Wierstorf, Hagen and Raake, Alexander},
    booktitle = {Fortschritte der Akustik - DAGA 2017},
    publisher = {DEGA e.V.},
    address   = {Kiel, Germany},
    month     = {March},
    year      = {2017}
}

Abstract

Typical research on the quality of speech and audio technology concerns the impact of system characteristics on the signals, and is often focussing on the transmission and reproduction side. However, less work is reported on the influence of the content creation phase on the quality that the listener is experiencing in the end. This contribution aims to obtain more insights into this rather new area within the Quality of Experience domain. For that purpose, the authors present a feasibility study on the modeling of user preference ratings for different music production techniques. In previous work, different mixes (in terms of compression, equalization, reverb and positioning) of the same popular music piece were generated and user preference ratings in form of paired comparisons were collected. The present contribution continues this work by investigating a number of modelling approaches that predict the preference ratings for the different music mixes. While a general feasibility for such models can be shown, a main limitation of this work is the currently very limited amount of available material for robust modeling.