2026
DEEPAQ: A PERCEPTUAL AUDIO QUALITY METRIC BASED ON FOUNDATIONAL MODELS AND WEAKLY SUPERVISED LEARNING
ICASSP 2026oral
This paper presents the Deep learning-based Perceptual Audio Quality metric (DeePAQ) for evaluating general audio quality. Our approach leverages metric learning together with the music foundation model MERT, guided by surrogate labels, to construct an embedding space that captures distortion intens…