While wind turbines have beneficial effects for the environment, they inevitably generate environmental noise. In order to protect residents against unacceptable levels of noise, exposure-response relationships are needed to predict the expected percentage of people annoyed or highly annoyed at a given level of wind turbine noise. Exposure-response relationships for wind turbine noise were deri...

Urban residential neighbour noise is ubiquitous but its effects are relatively under-researched. Neighbour noise is difficult to measure and is often locally controlled under nuisance, rather than environmental health, regulations. We analyze the health effects of residential noise annoyance using a high quality longitudinal survey of over 5000 adults in the Netherlands between 2007 and 2013. W...

Nighttime and evening time noise have a greater impact on annoyance in residential areas than daytime noise of the same level. A number of studies showed different sensitivities with respect to noise exposure during the day, evening and night in particular for air traffic (Fields 1986a, b; Miedema et al. 2000; Schreckenberg & Meis 2006). Lden was proven to be a good indicator for long term effe...

In this paper, a comparison between an objective quality measure and the perceived mean annoyance values of watermarked videos is presented. A psychophysical experiment has been performed to measure the detection threshold and mean annoyance values of several watermarked videos, using two different marks. The results of this experiment were then compared with an objective quality measure, obtai...

This paper presents the results of low-frequency noise (LFN) annoyance tests in laboratory conditions on a model workstation conceptual mental work. Group of volunteers: 60 persons (30 women and 30 men) participated in the experiment consisting in completing psychological tests in three different acoustic conditions. The tests results have shown significant differences in subjective assessment ...

In this work we propose a subjective no reference ringing metric using machine learning techniques. For every block in a JPEG compressed image the algorithm outputs a value which corresponds to the annoyance of the ringing artifacts. The extracted feature vector is designed bearing in mind the properties of the HVS (Human Visual System) and the ringing artifacts. The presented results show succ...

Noise is known as one of the most frequently reported negative environmental effects of traffic. At present, according to the current standards and calculation specifications, the impact of road traffic noise is represented by the A-weighted energy-equivalent sound level (LA,eq). This quantity does not account for the subjective annoyance of sound events as it is perceived by the affected perso...

Hearing aids with an integrated sound generator have been used to enhance the treatment of tinnitus. The main aim of this study was to verify whether the combined use of amplification and sound generator is more effective than conventional amplification alone in reducing tinnitus annoyance by means of the use of a new hearing aid with an integrated sound generator. A total of 49 patients underw...