no code implementations • LREC 2022 • Laura Seiffe, Fares Kallel, Sebastian Möller, Babak Naderi, Roland Roller
In order to provide suitable text for the target audience, it is necessary to measure its complexity.
1 code implementation • HumEval (ACL) 2022 • Vivien Macketanz, Babak Naderi, Steven Schmidt, Sebastian Möller
The quality of machine-generated text is a complex construct consisting of various aspects and dimensions.
no code implementations • GermEval 2022 • Salar Mohtaj, Babak Naderi, Sebastian Möller
We designed the task as text regression in which participants developed models to predict complexity of pieces of text for a German learner in a range from 1 to 7.
no code implementations • 25 Jan 2024 • Nicolae Catalin Ristea, Ando Saabas, Ross Cutler, Babak Naderi, Sebastian Braun, Solomiya Branets
The ICASSP 2024 Speech Signal Improvement Grand Challenge is intended to stimulate research in the area of improving the speech signal quality in communication systems.
no code implementations • 14 Sep 2023 • Babak Naderi, Ross Cutler, Nabakumar Singh Khongbantabam, Yasaman Hosseinkashi, Henrik Turbell, Albert Sadovnikov, Quan Zhou
We present the Video Conferencing Dataset (VCD) for evaluating video codecs for real-time communication, the first such dataset focused on video conferencing.
2 code implementations • 14 Sep 2023 • Babak Naderi, Ross Cutler, Nicolae-Catalin Ristea
The commonly used standard ITU-T Rec.
no code implementations • 2 Sep 2023 • Abrar Majeedi, Babak Naderi, Yasaman Hosseinkashi, Juhee Cho, Ruben Alvarez Martinez, Ross Cutler
We also propose a new full reference video quality assessment (FRVQA) model that achieves a Pearson Correlation Coefficient (PCC) of 0. 99 and a Spearman's Rank Correlation Coefficient (SRCC) of 0. 99 at the model level.
1 code implementation • 22 Mar 2023 • Gabriel Mittag, Babak Naderi, Vishak Gopal, Ross Cutler
Using these features together with VMAF core features, our proposed model achieves a PCC of 0. 99 on the validation set.
no code implementations • 12 Mar 2023 • Ross Cutler, Ando Saabas, Babak Naderi, Nicolae-Cătălin Ristea, Sebastian Braun, Solomiya Branets
The ICASSP 2023 Speech Signal Improvement Challenge is intended to stimulate research in the area of improving the speech signal quality in communication systems.
no code implementations • 13 Jul 2022 • Salar Mohtaj, Babak Naderi, Sebastian Möller, Faraz Maschhur, Chuyang Wu, Max Reinhard
Text readability assessment has a wide range of applications for different target people, from language learners to people with disabilities.
1 code implementation • 14 Apr 2022 • Babak Naderi, Ross Cutler
P. 910 is slow, expensive, and requires a lab, which all create barriers to usage.
2 code implementations • 20 Apr 2021 • Gabriel Mittag, Saman Zadtootaghaj, Thilo Michael, Babak Naderi, Sebastian Möller
The ground truth used for training image, video, or speech quality prediction models is based on the Mean Opinion Scores (MOS) obtained from subjective experiments.
1 code implementation • 19 Apr 2021 • Gabriel Mittag, Babak Naderi, Assmaa Chehadi, Sebastian Möller
In this paper, we present an update to the NISQA speech quality prediction model that is focused on distortions that occur in communication networks.
1 code implementation • 25 Oct 2020 • Babak Naderi, Ross Cutler
The quality of the speech communication systems, which include noise suppression algorithms, are typically evaluated in laboratory experiments according to the ITU-T Rec.
1 code implementation • 25 Oct 2020 • Ross Cutler, Babak Naderi, Markus Loide, Sten Sootla, Ando Saabas
The quality of acoustic echo cancellers (AECs) in real-time communication systems is typically evaluated using objective metrics like ERLE and PESQ, and less commonly with lab-based subjective tests like ITU-T Rec.
1 code implementation • 17 May 2020 • Babak Naderi, Ross Cutler
We provide an open-source implementation of the ITU-T Rec.
1 code implementation • 25 Mar 2020 • Babak Naderi, Tobias Hossfeld, Matthias Hirth, Florian Metzger, Sebastian Möller, Rafael Zequeira Jiménez
The subjective quality of transmitted speech is traditionally assessed in a controlled laboratory environment according to ITU-T Rec.
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no code implementations • 16 Apr 2019 • Babak Naderi, Salar Mohtaj, Kaspar Ensikat, Sebastian Möller
This paper presents TextComplexityDE, a dataset consisting of 1000 sentences in German language taken from 23 Wikipedia articles in 3 different article-genres to be used for developing text-complexity predictor models and automatic text simplification in German language.