Invitation to attend: Third International Workshop on Perceptual Quality of Systems (Ercan Altinsoy )

Subject: Invitation to attend: Third International Workshop on Perceptual Quality of Systems From: Ercan Altinsoy <ercan.altinsoy@xxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:47:57 +0200 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_002B_01CB2C3A.AAC73B60 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On behalf of the organizing committee of the PQS 2010 (Third = International Workshop on Perceptual Quality of Systems), we would like to invite you = to attend this exciting event that will happen in Bautzen, Germany, = September 6-8, 2010. (http://www.ias.et.tu-dresden.de/akustik/PQS2010/). =20 Third International Workshop on Perceptual Quality of Systems is a = direct successor to the successful workshop series inaugurated in Herne in = 2003, and in Berlin in 2006. =20 The quality of systems which address human perception is difficult to describe. An engineering approach to quality includes the consideration = of how a system is perceived by its users, and how the needs and = expectations of the users develop. Thus, quality assessment and prediction have to = take the relevant human perception and judgement factors into account.=20 =20 The workshop is intended to provide an interdisciplinary exchange of = ideas between both academic and industrial researchers working on different aspects of perceptual quality of systems. =20 Keynotes: =20 =93The importance of the individual modalities (audio, haptic and video) = for user interface design=94, Soren Bech, Bang & Olufsen a/s =93P.OLQA-Modell: Objective listening quality assessment=94, Jens = Berger, SwissQual AG =93Wine Quality=94, Britta Wiegelmann, Vinum =20 Paper Presentations =96 Sorted by Sessions =20 Session I: Quality of Multimodal Perception I =96 Audiotactile = Interaction (I.I) Evaluation of Audio Driven Touch Feedback for a Groovebox. = Sebastian Merchel, Ercan Altinsoy, Maik Stamm=20 (I.II)Identification accuracy and efficiency of haptic virtual objects = using force-feedback. Maik Stamm, Ercan Altinsoy, Sebastian Merchel=20 =20 Session II: Sound Quality (II.I) A Layer Model of Sound Quality. Jens Blauert & Ute Jekosch=20 (II.II) Emoacoustics: a study on the physical and psychological = dimensions of sound design. Erkin Asutay, Daniel V=E4stfj=E4ll, Ana = Tajadura-Jim=E9nez, Anders Genell, Penny Bergman, Mendel Kleiner=20 (II.III) Quality of Auditory-Tactile Virtual Environments. Ercan = Altinsoy=20 (II.IV) The Semantic Space of Vehicle Sounds - An Approach to Develop a Semantic Differential in View of Customer Perceptions. Ercan Altinsoy, Michael Ferling, Ute Jekosch=20 =20 Session III: User Quality Judgements (III.I) Finding Patterns in User Quality Judgements. Maria Wolters, = Florian G=F6dde, Sebastian M=F6ller, Klaus-Peter Engelbrecht=20 (III.II) Gain from Strain? Measuring the Influence of User Fatigue on = the Quality of Subjective Ratings. Raimund Schatz, Sebastian Egger, Stefan Scherer=20 (III.III) Confirmation or Disconfirmation of prior Expectations: = Measuring the Perceptual Quality of Search Engines. Katrin Lamm=20 =20 Session IV: Speech Quality I (IV.I) Extending the E-Model to Better Capture Terminal Effects. = Sebastian M=F6ller, Frank Kettler, Hans-Wilhelm Gierlich, Nicolas C=F4t=E9, = Alexander Raake, Marcel W=E4ltermann=20 (IV.II) Diagnostic Instrumental Assessment in a Super-Wideband Context. Nicolas C=F4t=E9, Vincent Koehl, Sebastian M=F6ller, Alexander Raake, = Marcel W=E4ltermann, Val=E9rie Gautier-Turbin=20 =20 Session V: Speech Quality II (V.I) How to talk about speech and audio quality with speech and audio people? Alexander Raake, Marcel Waltermann, Falk Schiffner, Bernhard = Feiten=20 (V.II) Performance-based Measurement of Speech Quality with an Audio Proof-Reading Task. Mark Huckvale, Gaston Hilkhuysen, Deizom Frasi (V.III) Can latent speech quality dimensions be quantified directly? = Marcel W=E4ltermann, Alexander Raake, Sebastian M=F6ller=20 =20 Session VI: Speech Quality III (VI.I) Voice Transmission Quality in Contemporary Mobile Networks =96 = MOS versus Perceptual Annoyance and Service Acceptability Thresholds and = their 2-year Trends. Jan Holub=20 (VI.II) Subjective preference for amount of noise reduction. R. Houben, T.M.H. Dijkstra, W.A. Dreschler=20 (VI.III) Automatic usability evaluation for spoken dialog systems based = on rules identified by a sociotechnical approach. Stefan Schmidt, = Klaus-Peter Engelbrecht, Martin Meister, Julian Stubbe, Mandy T=F6ppel, Sebastian = M=F6ller=20 (VI.IV) Neural correlates of speech degradation =96 Subjective ratings = and brain activation in case of signal-correlated noise. Jan-Niklas Antons, Robert Schleicher, Benjamin Blankertz, Anne Porbadnigk, Sebastian = M=F6ller, Gabriel Curio =20 Session VII: Quality of Multimodal Perception II =96 Audiovisual = Interaction (VII.I) Quality Impact of Video Format and Scaling in the Context of = IPTV. M.N. Garcia & A. Raake (VII.II) Image Quality Impact and Comparison of Selected = State-of-the-Art CFA Interpolation Techniques. Petr Dostal, Milos Klima (VII.III) Coordinating speech and gesture: a look at quality perception = with embodied conversational agents. David D. Pardo, Beatriz = L=F3pez-Menc=EDa, =C1lvaro Hern=E1ndez-Trapote, Luis Hern=E1ndez-G=F3mez =20 Session IIX: Perceptual Studies on Spatial Audio Reproduction (IIX.I) Perceived Sound Quality of Small Original and Optimized = Loudspeaker Systems. Adrian Bahne=20 (IIX.II) Perceptual evaluation of individual headphone compensation for binaural synthesis. A.Lindau & F.Brinkmann =20 =20 Session IX: Hearing Aids and Performance Evaluation (IX.I) A performance comparison of Home Usage Testing and Central = Location Testing in small impairment listening tests. S=F8ren Vase Legarth, = Jesper Ramsgaard, Guillaume Le Ray, Nick Zacharov=20 (IX.II) Sensory evaluation of hearing aid performance based on normal-hearing listener. S=F8ren Vase Legarth, Christian Stender = Simonsen, Lars Bramsl=F8w, Guillaume Le Ray, Nick Zacharov =20 =20 Looking forward to seeing you in Bautzen in September 2010! =20 Workshop Chair: Ute Jekosch Ercan Altinsoy Sebastian M=F6ller Alexander Raake =20 ------=_NextPart_000_002B_01CB2C3A.AAC73B60 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html xmlns:v=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" = xmlns:o=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" = xmlns:w=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" = xmlns:m=3D"http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" = xmlns=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <meta name=3DGenerator content=3D"Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"> <style>  </style>  </head> <body lang=3DDE link=3Dblue vlink=3Dpurple> <div class=3DWordSection1> On = behalf of the organizing committee of the PQS 2010 (Third International Workshop on Perceptual Quality of Systems), we would like to invite you to attend = this exciting event that will happen in Bautzen, Germany, September 6-8, = 2010. (<a href=3D"http://www.ias.et.tu-dresden.de/akustik/PQS2010/">http://www.ias.= et.tu-dresden.de/akustik/PQS2010/</a>).<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Third International Workshop on Perceptual Quality of Systems is a direct = successor to the successful workshop series inaugurated in Herne in 2003, and in = Berlin in 2006.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> The = quality of systems which address human perception is difficult to describe. An = engineering approach to quality includes the consideration of how a system is = perceived by its users, and how the needs and expectations of the users develop. = Thus, quality assessment and prediction have to take the relevant human = perception and judgement factors into account. <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> The workshop is intended to = provide an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas between both academic and industrial researchers working on different aspects of perceptual quality of = systems.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Keynotes:<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> “The importance of the = individual modalities (audio, haptic and video) for user interface design”, = Soren Bech, Bang & Olufsen a/s<o:p></o:p> “P.OLQA-Modell: Objective = listening quality assessment”, Jens Berger, SwissQual = AG<o:p></o:p> “Wine Quality”, = Britta Wiegelmann, Vinum<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Paper Presentations – = Sorted by Sessions<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Session I: Quality of Multimodal = Perception I – Audiotactile Interaction<o:p></o:p> (I.I) Evaluation of Audio Driven = Touch Feedback for a Groovebox. Sebastian Merchel, Ercan Altinsoy, Maik Stamm = <o:p></o:p> (I.II)Identification accuracy = and efficiency of haptic virtual objects using force-feedback. Maik Stamm, = Ercan Altinsoy, Sebastian Merchel <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Session II: Sound = Quality<o:p></o:p> (II.I) A Layer Model of Sound = Quality. Jens Blauert & Ute Jekosch <o:p></o:p> (II.II) Emoacoustics: a study on = the physical and psychological dimensions of sound design. Erkin = Asutay, Daniel V=E4stfj=E4ll, Ana Tajadura-Jim=E9nez, Anders Genell, Penny = Bergman, Mendel Kleiner <o:p></o:p> (II.III) Quality of Auditory-Tactile Virtual Environments. Ercan Altinsoy = <o:p></o:p> (II.IV) The Semantic Space of = Vehicle Sounds - An Approach to Develop a Semantic Differential in View of = Customer Perceptions. Ercan Altinsoy, Michael Ferling, Ute Jekosch = <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Session III: User Quality = Judgements<o:p></o:p> (III.I) Finding Patterns in User = Quality Judgements. Maria Wolters, Florian G=F6dde, Sebastian M=F6ller, = Klaus-Peter Engelbrecht <o:p></o:p> (III.II) Gain from Strain? = Measuring the Influence of User Fatigue on the Quality of Subjective Ratings. Raimund = Schatz, Sebastian Egger, Stefan Scherer <o:p></o:p> (III.III) Confirmation or = Disconfirmation of prior Expectations: Measuring the Perceptual Quality of Search = Engines. Katrin Lamm <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Session IV: Speech Quality = I<o:p></o:p> (IV.I) Extending the E-Model to = Better Capture Terminal Effects. Sebastian M=F6ller, Frank Kettler, = Hans-Wilhelm Gierlich, Nicolas C=F4t=E9, Alexander Raake, Marcel W=E4ltermann = <o:p></o:p> (IV.II) Diagnostic Instrumental Assessment in a Super-Wideband Context.=A0 Nicolas = C=F4t=E9, Vincent Koehl, Sebastian M=F6ller, Alexander Raake, Marcel W=E4ltermann, = Val=E9rie Gautier-Turbin <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Session V: Speech Quality = II<o:p></o:p> (V.I) How to talk about speech = and audio quality with speech and audio people? Alexander Raake, Marcel = Waltermann, Falk Schiffner, Bernhard Feiten <o:p></o:p> (V.II) Performance-based = Measurement of Speech Quality with an Audio Proof-Reading Task. Mark Huckvale, Gaston = Hilkhuysen, Deizom Frasi<o:p></o:p> (V.III) Can latent speech = quality dimensions be quantified directly? Marcel W=E4ltermann, Alexander Raake, Sebastian M=F6ller <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Session VI: Speech Quality = III<o:p></o:p> (VI.I) Voice Transmission = Quality in Contemporary Mobile Networks – MOS versus Perceptual Annoyance and Service Acceptability Thresholds and their 2-year Trends. Jan Holub = <o:p></o:p> (VI.II) Subjective preference = for amount of noise reduction. R. Houben, T.M.H. Dijkstra, W.A. Dreschler = <o:p></o:p> (VI.III) Automatic usability evaluation for spoken dialog systems based on rules identified = by a sociotechnical approach. Stefan Schmidt, Klaus-Peter Engelbrecht, = Martin Meister, Julian Stubbe, Mandy T=F6ppel, Sebastian M=F6ller = <o:p></o:p> (VI.IV) Neural correlates of speech degradation – Subjective ratings and brain = activation in case of signal-correlated noise. Jan-Niklas Antons, Robert Schleicher, Benjamin Blankertz, Anne Porbadnigk, Sebastian M=F6ller, = Gabriel Curio<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Session VII: Quality of = Multimodal Perception II – Audiovisual Interaction<o:p></o:p> (VII.I) Quality Impact of Video = Format and Scaling in the Context of IPTV. M.N. Garcia & A. = Raake<o:p></o:p> (VII.II) Image Quality Impact = and Comparison of Selected State-of-the-Art CFA Interpolation Techniques. = Petr Dostal, Milos Klima<o:p></o:p> (VII.III) Coordinating speech = and gesture: a look at quality perception with embodied conversational agents. David = D. Pardo, Beatriz L=F3pez-Menc=EDa, =C1lvaro Hern=E1ndez-Trapote, Luis = Hern=E1ndez-G=F3mez<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Session IIX: Perceptual Studies = on Spatial Audio Reproduction<o:p></o:p> (IIX.I) Perceived Sound Quality = of Small Original and Optimized Loudspeaker Systems. Adrian Bahne = <o:p></o:p> (IIX.II) Perceptual evaluation = of individual headphone compensation for binaural synthesis. A.Lindau & F.Brinkmann=A0 <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Session IX: Hearing Aids and = Performance Evaluation<o:p></o:p> (IX.I) A performance comparison = of Home Usage Testing and Central Location Testing in small impairment listening = tests. S=F8ren Vase Legarth, Jesper Ramsgaard, Guillaume Le Ray, Nick Zacharov = <o:p></o:p> (IX.II) Sensory evaluation of = hearing aid performance based on normal-hearing listener. S=F8ren Vase Legarth, = Christian Stender Simonsen, Lars Bramsl=F8w, Guillaume Le Ray, Nick = Zacharov<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Looking forward to seeing you in Bautzen in September = 2010!<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Workshop Chair:<o:p></o:p> Ute Jekosch<o:p></o:p> Ercan Altinsoy<o:p></o:p> Sebastian M=F6ller<o:p></o:p> Alexander = Raake<o:p></o:p> <o:p> = </o:p> </div> </body> </html> ------=_NextPart_000_002B_01CB2C3A.AAC73B60--

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