EP1386307B1 - Verfahren und vorrichtung zur bestimmung eines qualitätsmasses eines audiosignals - Google Patents
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- the invention relates to a method for determining a quality measure of an audio signal. Furthermore, the invention relates to a device for carrying out this method and a noise suppression module and an interrupt detection and interpolation module for use in such a device.
- the To judge service quality of a telecommunication network is quality to determine a signal transmitted via the telecommunication network.
- quality to determine a signal transmitted via the telecommunication network For audio signals, In particular with speech signals, various intrusive methods are known for this purpose. In such methods, as the name suggests, in the system under test intervened by occupying a transmission channel and transmitting therein a reference signal becomes. The quality assessment is then carried out by comparing the known Reference signal with the received signal, for example, subjectively by a or a plurality of test persons. However, this is expensive and therefore expensive.
- EP 0 980 064 is another intrusive method for machine-aided quality assessment an audio signal, wherein for assessing the transmission quality a spectral similarity value of the known source signal and the received signal is determined. This similarity value is based on a calculation of the covariance the spectra of the source signal and the received signal and a division of the covariance by the standard deviations of the two spectra.
- intrusive methods generally have the disadvantage that, as already mentioned in the zu testing system must be intervened. To determine the signal quality must namely occupies at least one transmission channel and transmits therein a reference signal become. This transmission channel can not during this time for a data transmission be used. In addition, it is in a broadcasting system such as a broadcasting service in principle possible, the signal source for transmission occupied by test signals, but since this occupies all channels and the test signal to This procedure is extremely impractical. Intrusive Methods are also inappropriate for simultaneously maintaining the quality of a variety of transmission channels to monitor.
- EP-A-644 526 discloses a non-intrusive process for Noise reduction, which is used to calculate the desired Signal information uses an estimate of the noise energy.
- the object of the invention is to provide a method of the type mentioned above, which avoids the disadvantages of the prior art and in particular offers a possibility to assess the signal quality of a transmitted over a telecommunications network Signals without knowledge of the originally transmitted signal.
- a reference signal is first determined from the audio signal. through Comparing the determined reference signal with the audio signal becomes a quality value determined, which is used to determine the quality measure.
- the inventive method thus allows an assessment of the quality of an audio signal at any terminal of the telecommunication network. Ie. it allows so that the quality assessment of many transmission channels simultaneously, even a simultaneous assessment of all channels would be possible.
- the quality assessment takes place solely on the basis of the characteristics of the received signal, d. H. without knowledge of the source signal or the signal source.
- the invention thus not only enables monitoring of the transmission quality of the Telecommunications network, but also, for example, a quality-based cost allocation, a quality-based routing in the network, a test of the coverage ratio
- a QOS Quality of Service
- a transmitted over a telecommunications network audio signal has next to the desired Signal information also typically unwanted components such as different noise components which are not in the original source signal were present.
- the reference signal is determined by the in the received signal received existing Störsignalanmaschine and then from the received signal are removed. By removing the noise from the audio signal are first determined a noisy audio signal, which is preferred as Reference signal is used to assess the transmission quality.
- the audio signal could, for example, be passed through appropriate filters.
- a neural network is used for this purpose.
- the audio signal is not used directly as an input signal.
- DWT discrete wavelet transform
- This transformation provides a plurality of DWT coefficients of the audio signal corresponding to the neural Network are supplied as input signal.
- the neural network delivers at Output a plurality of corrected DWT coefficients, from which with the inverse DWT the reference signal is obtained. This corresponds to the noisy version of the Audio signal.
- the coefficients of the neural network must be set in this way be that this to the DWT coefficients of a noisy input signal provides the DWT coefficients of the corresponding noisy input signal.
- the neural network In order to the neural network provides the desired coefficients, it must first with a Set trained by corresponding noisy or noisy signal pairs become.
- any other information in addition to the quality value provided by the Comparison of the received audio signal determined with the reference signal determined therefrom will be considered, any other information. This can both Information contained in the audio signal, as well as information about the transmission channel or the telecommunications network itself.
- the quality of the received audio signal for example, by the at Transmission codecs (coder - decoder) influenced. It is difficult to do such Detect signal degradation, for example, at too small codec bit rates a part of the original signal information is lost. However, they are too small Codec bit rates result in a change in the fundamental frequency (pitch) of the audio signal, why examined with advantage the course and the dynamics of the fundamental frequency in the audio signal becomes. Since such changes are easiest based on audio signal sections With vocals, it is first preferable to use signal components in the audio signal detected with vowels and then examined for pitch variations.
- the received audio signal can namely not only have unwanted signal components, it can also partially on the way desired information has been lost. So can the received audio signal for example, have more or less long signal interruptions.
- the received audio signal may include various types of audio signals. So For example, it can contain voice, music, noise or silence signals.
- the quality assessment can be based on all or part of it Signal components take place. In a preferred variant of the invention, the assessment the signal quality, however, limited to the speech signal components.
- the speech signal components are first extracted from the audio signal and only these speech signal components for determining the quality measure, i. H. to Determination of the reference signal used. To determine the quality value is in In this case, the determined reference signal, of course, not with the received audio signal, but compared only with the voice signal component extracted therefrom.
- the inventive device for machine-aided determination of a quality measure an audio signal comprises first means for determining a reference signal the audio signal, second means for determining a quality value by means of comparisons the determined reference signal with the audio signal and third means for determining the quality measure taking into account the quality value.
- the first means for determining a reference signal from the audio signal can be several Include modules. So is preferably a noise suppression module and / or a Interrupt detection and interpolation module provided.
- noise signal components can be received in the Suppress audio signal. It contains the means to carry out the already described Wavelet transforms and the neural network to determine the new DWT coefficients.
- the interrupt detection and interpolation module has those Means, on the one hand for detecting signal interruptions in the audio signal and on the other hand, for the polynomial interpolation of short and model-based interpolation be required by medium-length signal interruptions. The determined so Reference signal thus corresponds to a noisy version of the received audio signal and typically has only larger signal interruptions.
- the information about the signal interruptions of the audio signal is not only used to determine a better reference signal, they can also be used to determine of a better quality.
- the third means of determination of the quality measure are therefore preferably designed such that information can be taken into account via signal interruptions in the audio signal.
- the device therefore advantageously has fourth means for determining information on codec-related Signal distortions on.
- codec-related Signal distortions include, for example, a vocal detection module, with which signal components with vowels can be detected in the audio signal. These vowel signal components will be passed on to an evaluation module, which is based on this Signal components
- Information about codec-related signal distortions determines which also be used to assess the signal quality.
- the third funds are corresponding designed such that this information about the codec-related signal distortions can be taken into account when determining the quality measure.
- the device has, in particular, fifth means for extracting the device Speech signal components from the audio signal. Accordingly, to determine the Reference signal not the audio signal itself, but only the voice signal component noisy and checked for interruptions. Likewise, of course, not the audio signal, but only the voice signal component compared with this reference signal. In order to the determination of the quality measure is based only on the information in Voice signal component, wherein the information from the remaining signal components is not taken into account become.
- FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of the method according to the invention.
- a Audio signal 1 determines a quality measure 2, which, for example, also for evaluation the used (not shown) telecommunications network can be used.
- the audio signal 1 is here understood to mean the signal which is a receiver after transmission via the telecommunication network.
- This audio signal 1 Namely, typically does not match the one sent by the transmitter (not shown) Signal match, because on the way from the transmitter to the receiver, the transmission signal varied way changed. For example, it goes through different modules such as speech coders and decoders, multiplexers and demultiplexers or even speech enhancers and echo cancellers. But even the transmission channel itself can be a big Have an influence on the signal, which occurs, for example, in the form of interference, fading, Transmission off or interruptions, echo generation, etc. express.
- the audio signal 1 thus contains not only desired signal components, d. H. the original one Transmission signal, but also unwanted interference signal components. It can also be that Signal portions of the transmission signal are missing, d. H. lost during the transmission are.
- the evaluation of signal quality is not based on the entire audio signal 1, but only on the basis of the contained therein Speech portion.
- the audio signal 1 is first recorded with an audio discriminator 3 Voice signal parts 4 examined out. Found speech signal components 4 become further Processing, whereas other signal components such as music 5.1, breaks 5.2 or severe signal interference 5.3 sorted out and otherwise processed or can be discarded.
- the audio signal 1 piecewise, d. H. to pieces a each about 100 ms to 500 ms, passed to the audio discriminator 3. This decomposes these pieces further in single buffer of about 20 ms in length, processes these buffers and then assigns them each one of the signal groups to be distinguished speech signal, music, pause or strong interference to.
- the audio discriminator 3 uses, for example, to judge the signal chips an LPC (linear predictive coding) transformation, which uses the coefficients of a the adaptive filter corresponding to the human language tract.
- LPC linear predictive coding
- the Assignment of the signal pieces to the different signal groups is based on the Shape of the transmission characteristics of this filter.
- this voice signal component becomes 4 now a reference signal 6, d. H. the best possible estimate of the sender originally transmitted transmission signal determined.
- This reference signal estimation takes place in several stages.
- a noise suppression module 7 are initially undesirable Signal components such as stationary noise or impulse noise from the speech signal component 4 removed or suppressed. This is done with the help of a neural network, which previously by means of a variety of noisy signals as input and each train the corresponding noise-free version of the input signal as a target signal has been. The thus obtained, noisy speech signal 11 is sent to the second stage forwarded.
- the interruption detection and interpolation module 8 interruptions detected in the audio signal 1 or in the voice signal portion 4 and if possible interpolated, d. H. the missing samples are replaced by appropriately estimated values.
- the detection of signal interruptions by means of an investigation discontinuities of the signal fundamental frequency (pitch-tracing).
- the interpolation is performed depending on the length of the detected interruption.
- model-based interpolations such as a maximum a posteriori, an autoregressive or a frequency-time interpolation applied.
- For longer Signal interruptions is an interpolation or other signal reconstruction in usually no longer possible in a meaningful way.
- the comparison module 9 After determining the reference signal 6 with the noise suppression module 7 and the interruption detection and interpolation module 8 it is using the comparison module 9 compared with the voice signal component 4.
- This comparison can be an algorithm used, for example, in intrusive procedures for comparison the known source signal is used with the received signal. Suitable are, for example, psychoacoustic models, the signals perceptive, d. H. perceptible to compare.
- the result of this comparison is an intrusive quality value 10.
- This intrusive quality value 10 the input signals, so the Voice signal component 4 and the reference signal 6, in signal pieces of about 20 to 30 ms Length decomposes and calculates a partial quality value for each signal piece. After about 20 to 30 signal pieces, which corresponds approximately to a signal duration of 0.5 seconds, becomes the intrusive Quality value 10 is determined as the arithmetic mean of these partial quality values. Of the intrusive quality value 10 forms the output signal of the comparison module 9.
- the transmitted signal on its way from the transmitter to the receiver has an influence on the audio signal 1.
- These influences exist, for example in that both the fundamental frequency and the higher harmonic frequencies vary the signal. The smaller the bit rate of the speech codecs used, the greater the frequency shifts and thus the signal distortions.
- the evaluation module 14 divides the vocal signal 13 into signal pieces of about 30 ms and calculates a respective DFT (discrete Fourier transformation) with a frequency resolution of about 2 Hz at a sampling frequency of about 8 kHz. Leave it then determine the fundamental frequency and the higher harmonic frequencies and look for variations. Another feature for evaluating the codec-related Distortion forms the dynamics of the signal spectrum, with a smaller dynamics a poorer signal quality means.
- the reference values for the dynamic assessment are obtained for the individual vowels from example signals. From the information on the influence of codecs on frequency shifts and spectrum dynamics of the audio signal 1 and the denoised voice signal 11 becomes a codec quality value 15 derived.
- intrusive quality value 10 and codec quality value 15 also have an interruption quality value 17 taken into account.
- This value includes information about the length and the number of interruptions detected by the interruption detection and interpolation module 8, in a preferred embodiment of the invention, only the information be taken into account over the long breaks.
- quality information 18 on the received audio signal 1 or the denoised speech signal 11, which is determined with other modules or examinations will be included in the calculations of quality standard 2.
- the individual quality values are now scaled such that they are in the range of numbers between 0 and 1, where a quality value of 1 is undiminished quality and Values below 1 indicate a correspondingly reduced quality.
- the quality measure 2 is finally calculated as a linear combination of the individual quality values, whereby the individual weighting coefficients are determined experimentally and determined that their sum is 1.
- figure 2 shows the noise suppression module 7.
- the speech signal component 4 of the audio signal 1 is first subjected to a known DWT 19 (discrete wavelet transformation).
- DWT's are similar to DFT's used for signal analysis.
- An essential Difference, however, unlike the ones used in a DFT, is indefinite and thus temporally unlocated sine or cosine waveforms, the use of so-called wavelets, d. H. temporally limited and thus temporally localized Waveforms with mean 0.
- the speech signal component 4 is divided into signal pieces of about 20 ms to 30 ms, which each of the DWT 19 are subjected.
- the result of DWT 19 is a set of DWT coefficients 20.1, which is fed as input vector to a neural network 20 become. Its coefficients have previously been trained to become a given Set of DWT coefficients 20.1 of a noisy signal a new set of DWT coefficients 20.2 provide the noisy version of this signal.
- This new set of DWT coefficient 20.2 will now be sent to IDWT 21, i. H. subjected to the DWT 19 inverse DWT.
- This IDWT 21 delivers in this way a mostly unencumbered version of the Speech signal portions 4, just the desired, denoised speech signal 11th
- the training configuration of the neural network 20 is shown in FIG. It is with Training pairs of noisy and noisy versions of sample signals.
- One unencumbered example signal 22.1 is subjected to the DWT 19 and it becomes a first Theorem 20.3 obtained from DWT coefficients.
- Even the noisy sample signal 22.2 is subjected to the same DWT 19 and generates a second set 20.4 of DWT coefficients, which is fed into the neural network 20.
- the output vector of the neural Network 20, the new DWT coefficients 20.5 is placed in a comparator 23 with the first one Theorem 20.3 compared with DWT coefficients. Because of the differences between These two sets of DWT coefficients are corrected 24 of the coefficients of the neural network 20.
- example signals 22.1, 22.2 uses which human sounds from different Represent languages. It is also beneficial for women as well as women To use male and female voices.
- the mentioned size of the individually to be processed Signal pieces from 20 ms to 30 ms duration are selected so that the processing of the Voice signal portion 4 are performed regardless of the language and the speaker can. Also pauses and very quiet signal sections are trained, so even these are recognized correctly.
- a multi-layer perceptron was used with an input layer 25, a hidden layer 26 and a Starting layer 27 used.
- the perceptron was trained with a backpropagation algorithm.
- the input layer 25 has a plurality of input neurons 25.1, the hidden layer 26 a plurality of hidden neurons 26.1 and the Output layer 27 on a plurality of output neurons 27.1. Every input neuron 25.1 becomes one of the DWT coefficients 20.1 of the preceding DWT 19 fed.
- the respective values are determined by the set coefficients of the respective neurons and the value combinations are calculated in each neuron supplies each output neuron 27.1 one of the new DWT coefficients 20.2.
- the audio discriminator 3 decomposes the signal pieces into individual buffers of Length 20 ms. At a sampling rate of 8 kHz, this corresponds to 160 samples.
- this Case may be, for example, a neural network 20 with 160 input and output neurons each 25.1, 27.1 and about 50 to 60 hidden neurons 26.1 are used.
- a time-frequency interpolation is used for the signal reconstruction.
- Length 8 ms
- the goal of interpolation is to address this gap.
- Figure 5 shows such a signal 28 of about 200 samples in length.
- Figure 5 shows the signal 28 in the temporal domain easier to recognize.
- On the abscissa axis 32 are the number of samples and on the ordinate axis 33 the magnitudes applied.
- the interpolation is done in the frequency-time domain.
- the interruption 29 is easy to recognize as a gap of almost 10 samples.
- the pitch period 30 of the signal 28 is determined.
- the interpolation will be information from the samples before and after the gap within this pitch period 30 is taken into account.
- the signal areas 31.1, 31.2 show those Ranges of the signal 28 each have a pitch period before or after the interruption 29.
- This Signal ranges 31.1, 31.2 are not identical to the original signal piece at break 29, but still show a high degree of similarity. For small Gaps up to about 10 samples are believed to still provide enough signal information is present in order to be able to carry out a correct interpolation. For longer gaps Additional information from samples of the environment can be used.
- the invention allows the signal quality of a Judge received audio signal without knowing the original transmission signal. From the signal quality can of course on the quality of the transmission channels used and thus closed on the service quality of the entire telecommunications network become.
- the fast response times of the inventive method which are on the order of about 100 ms to 500 ms, thus allowing different Applications such as general comparisons of service quality of various Networks or subnets, quality-based cost allocation or quality-based Routing in a network or across multiple networks by means of appropriate Control of network nodes (gateways, routers etc.).
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- Verfahren zur maschinengestützten Bestimmung eines Qualitätsmasses eines Audiosignals, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass aus dem Audiosignal ein Referenzsignal ermittelt wird welches eine Schätzung eines ursprünglich gesendeten Audiosignals darstellt, und dass mittels Vergleichen des Referenzsignals mit dem Audiosignal ein Qualitätswert bestimmt wird, der zur Bestimmung des Qualitätsmasses verwendet wird.
- Verfahren nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass mittels Entfemen von Rauschsignalanteilen aus dem Audiosignal ein entrauschtes Audiosignal ermittelt und dieses als Referenzsignal verwendet wird.
- Verfahren nach Anspruch 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das entrauschte Audiosignal ermittelt wird, indem das Audiosignal einer diskreten Wavelet Transformation unterworfen wird, deren Koeffizienten in ein zuvor trainiertes neuronales Netz eingespiesen und dessen Ausgangssignale der inversen, diskreten Wavelet Transformation unterworfen werden.
- Verfahren nach Anspruch 2 oder 3, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass im entrauschten Audiosignal Signalanteile mit Vokalen detektiert, daraus Informationen über Codec-bedingte Signalverzerrungen ermittelt und diese bei der Bestimmung des Qualitätsmasses berücksichtigt werden.
- Verfahren nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 4, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass Signalunterbrüche im Audiosignal detektiert und das Referenzsignal ermittelt wird, indem es bei den Signalunterbrüchen zumindest teilweise rekonstruiert wird, wobei das Referenzsignal bei kurzen Signalunterbrüchen vorzugsweise mit einer polynomischen und bei mittellangen Signalunterbrüchen vorzugsweise mit einer modellbasierten Interpolation rekonstruiert wird.
- Verfahren nach Anspruch 5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass bei der Bestimmung des Qualitätsmasses Informationen über die Signalunterbrüche berücksichtigt werden.
- Verfahren nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 6, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass vor dem Ermitteln des Referenzsignals aus dem Audiosignal ein Sprachsignalanteil extrahiert und die Bestimmung des Qualitätsmasses auf den Sprachsignalanteil beschränkt wird.
- Vorrichtung zur maschinengestützten Bestimmung eines Qualitätsmasses eines Audiosignals, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass sie erste Mittel zur Bestimmung eines Referenzsignals aus dem Audiosignal, zweite Mittel zur Bestimmung eines Qualitätswertes mittels Vergleichen des Referenzsignals mit dem Audiosignal sowie dritte Mittel zur Bestimmung des Qualitätsmasses unter Berücksichtigung des Qualitätswertes aufweist, wobei das Referenzsignal eine Schätzung eines ursprünglich gesendeten Audiosignals darstellt.
- Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 8, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die ersten Mittel ein Rauschunterdrückungsmodul zur Unterdrückung von Rauschsignalanteilen und/oder ein Unterbruchdetektions- und interpolationsmodul zur Detektion und Interpolation von Signalunterbrüchen im Audiosignal aufweisen, und die dritten Mittel derart ausgebildet sind, dass Signalunterbrüche bei der Bestimmung des Qualitätsmasses berücksichtigt werden können.
- Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 8 oder 9, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass sie Mittel zur Bestimmung von Codec-bedingten Signalverzerrungen aufweist, wobei diese ein Vokaldetektionsmodul zur Detektion von Vokal-Signalanteilen im Audiosignal sowie ein Bewertungsmodul zur Bestimmung der Codec-bedingten Signalverzerrungen umfassen, wobei die dritten Mittel derart ausgebildet sind, dass die Codec-bedingten Signalverzerrungen bei der Bestimmung des Qualitätsmasses berücksichtigt werden können.
- Vorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 8 bis 10, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass sie Mittel zur Extraktion eines Sprachsignalanteils aus dem Audiosignal aufweist und zur Bestimmung des Qualitätsmasses des Sprachsignalanteils ausgebildet ist.
- Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 9, wobei die ersten Mittel das Rauschunterdrückungsmodul aufweisen, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Rauschunterdrückungsmodul Mittel zur Durchführung einer diskreten Wavelet-Transformation zur Berechnung von Signalkoeffizienten eines Audiosignals, ein neuronales Netz zur Berechnung von korrigierten Signalkoeffizienten sowie Mittel zur Durchführung einer inversen Wavelet-Transformation der korrigierten Signalkoeffizienten zur Bestimmung des Audiosignals ohne Rauschsignalanteile aufweist.
- Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 9, wobei die ersten Mittel das Unterbruchdetektions- und Interpolationsmodul aufweisen, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Unterbruchdetektions- und Interpolationsmodul Mittel zur Detektion von Signalunterbrüchen in einem Audiosignal sowie Mittel zur interpolation von Signalunterbrüchen des Audiosignals aufweist, wobei diese vorzugsweise zur polynomischen Interpolation von kurzen bzw. zur modellbasierten Interpolation von mittellangen Signalunterbrüchen ausgebildet sind.
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