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As an essential and renowned business field of Fraunhofer IIS, the audio and multimedia activities offer advanced technologies that enable a broad range of multimedia enabled applications. While this may happen in many different contexts, such as Internet transmission, consumer devices or mobile multimedia services of next-generation communication, it is always the quality experienced by the human listener/viewer that constitutes the essential criterion of merit which several generations of technology are striving to fulfill to an ever-increasing extent. Naturally, since the intended final receiver is the human auditory/visual system in this case, the quality experienced is subjective in nature and requires a profound understanding in psychometrics, psychoacoustics and psychovisual disciplines for its successful measurement and optimization.
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Herre, J. (2011). Audio and Multimedia. In: Heuberger, A., Elst, G., Hanke, R. (eds) Microelectronic Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23071-4_28
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