| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/N24032/01 |
| Title: |
SUBJECTIVE QUALITY TRADE-OFFS IN CONSUMER MULTICHANNEL SOUND AND VIDEO DELIVERY SYSTEMS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Rumsey, Professor FJ |
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| Department: |
Sound Recording |
| Organisation: |
University of Surrey |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
04 December 2000 |
Ends: |
03 December 2003 |
Value (£): |
169,908
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Cognitive Science Appl. in ICT |
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| Creative Industries |
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Phe proposed project builds on work carried out at Surrey over the past three years as part of the EUREKA 1653 project called MEDUSA, which has been concerned with the optimisation of consumer multichannel surround sound applications. A new three year interdisciplinary project is proposed, designed to study the effects of sound quality degradation on multichannel or `surround' sound reproduction in consumer entertainment and broadcasting applications based on the recently adopted 5.1-channel or 3-2 surround format specified in ITU-R BS.775. In addition to providing valuable information to product designers and service providers concerning the audibility and relative importance of different quality degradations, the project will also enable the verification and trial of recently proposed methodologies for evaluating intermediate audio quality, such as introduced by the EBU and ITU.Numerous surround sound applications involve the use of moving pictures in some capacity (e.g. home cinema, digital television, multimedia applications), and it is proposed also to investigate the effect of video picture presence and absence on the judgment of sound quality. It is planned to evaluate how attentional conflicts between different sensory modalities influence the awareness of sound quality artefacts.
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http://www.surrey.ac.uk |