arXiv:2512.04792eess.AS2025-12中稿 · publication in For…

改进音频质量预测模型,兼顾正常与听力受损者听感差异。

Towards predicting binaural audio quality in listeners with normal and impaired hearing

  • 引入非线性听觉滤波器组模拟听力损伤者的感知变化。
  • 在六大数据集上验证,可同时预测正常与听力受损者对音质的评价。
  • 适合研究助听器算法或听觉感知机制的科研人员使用。

Eurich 等人(2024)提出了计算高效的单声道和双声道音频质量模型 eMoBi-Q,该模型融合了单、双声道听觉特征,并在六个涵盖音乐与语音的音频数据集上进行了验证,这些数据经现代助听设备常用算法(如声学透明、反馈消除、双耳波束成形)处理或通过扬声器播放。本研究将 eMoBi-Q 扩展以考虑感音神经性听力损失(HL)对音质感知的影响。为此,模型增加了非线性听觉滤波器组,因听力受损者普遍存在响度感知异常,故目标是将响度作为音质的一个子维度,用于预测正常及听力受损人群的听感。尽管响度本身在基于响度的助听器适配中很重要,但将其作为音质子指标可能有助于筛选听力受损者适用的可靠听觉特征。滤波器组及后续处理阶段的参数基于 Pieper 等人(2018)提出的生理学基础(双耳)响度模型。本文介绍了扩展后的双声道质量模型的初步实现并进行讨论。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Eurich et al. (2024) recently introduced the computationally efficient monaural and binaural audio quality model (eMoBi-Q). This model integrates both monaural and binaural auditory features and has been validated across six audio datasets encompassing quality ratings for music and speech, processed via algorithms commonly employed in modern hearing devices (e.g., acoustic transparency, feedback cancellation, and binaural beamforming) or presented via loudspeakers. In the current study, we expand eMoBi-Q to account for perceptual effects of sensorineural hearing loss (HL) on audio quality. For this, the model was extended by a nonlinear auditory filterbank. Given that altered loudness perception is a prevalent issue among listeners with hearing impairment, our goal is to incorporate loudness as a sub-dimension for predicting audio quality in both normal-hearing and hearing-impaired populations. While predicting loudness itself is important in the context of loudness-based hearing aid fitting, loudness as audio quality sub-measure may be helpful for the selection of reliable auditory features in hearing impaired listeners. The parameters of the filterbank and subsequent processing stages were informed by the physiologically-based (binaural) loudness model proposed by Pieper et al. (2018). This study presents and discusses the initial implementation of the extended binaural quality model.

音频质量听力损失响度建模

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