Title
Speech quality classifier model based on DBN that considers atmospheric phenomena
Date Issued
2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Federal University of Lavras
Publisher(s)
Croatian Communications and Information Society
Abstract
Current implementations of 5G networks consider higher frequency range of operation than previous telecommunication networks, and it is possible to offer higher data rates for different applications. On the other hand, atmospheric phenomena could have a more negative impact on the transmission quality. Thus, the study of the transmitted signal quality at high frequencies is relevant to guaranty the user´s quality of experience. In this research, the recommendations ITU-R P.838-3 and ITU-R P.676-11 are implemented in a network scenario, which are methodologies to estimate the signal degradations originated by rainfall and atmospheric gases, respectively. Thus, speech signals are encoded by the Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband (AMR-WB) codec, transmitted and the perceptual speech quality is evaluated using the algorithm described in ITU-T Rec. P.863, mostly known as POLQA. In this work, a novel non-intrusive speech quality classifier that considers atmospheric phenomena is proposed. This classifier is based on Deep Belief Networks (DBN) that uses Support Vector Machine (SVM) with radial basis function kernel (RBF-SVM) as classifier, to identify five predefined speech quality classes. Experimental results show that the proposed speech quality classifier reached an accuracy between 92% and 95% for each quality class overcoming the results obtained by the sole non-intrusive standard described in ITU-T Recommendation P.563. Furthermore, subjective tests are carried out to validate the proposed classifier performance, and it reached an accuracy of 94.8%.
Start page
75
End page
84
Volume
16
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Telecomunicaciones
Ciencias del medio ambiente
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85084814349
Source
Journal of Communications Software and Systems
ISSN of the container
18456421
Sponsor(s)
Manuscript received March 17, 2020; revised March 28, 2020. Date of current version March 31, 2020. The associate editor prof. Nikola Rozˇić has been coordinating the review of this manuscript and approved it for publication. M. J. da Silva, R. L. Rosa and D. Z. Rodríguez are with the Department of Computer Science, Federal University of Lavras, MG, Brazil, e-mail: marielle-jordane@hotmail.com, renata.rosa@ufla.br, demostenes.zegarra@ufla.br. D. Carrillo is with the LUT School of Energy Systems, Finland, e-mail: dick.carrillo.melgarejo@lut.fi This work was supported by Fundac¸ão de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) under Grant 2015/24496-0 and Grant 2018/26455-8. Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.24138/jcomss.v16i1.1033
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