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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering Volume 2010, Article ID 127513, 5 pages doi:10.1155/2010/127513 Research Article Signal-Based Performance Evaluation of Dereverberation Algorithms ¨ Patrick A. Naylor, Nikolay D. Gaubitch, and Emanuel A. P. Habets Communications and Signal Processing Group, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, UK Correspondence should be addressed to Nikolay D. Gaubitch, nikolay.gaubitch@imperial.ac.uk Received 7 July 2009; Accepted 13 October 2009 Academic Editor: Vesa Valimaki Copyright © 2010 Patrick A. Naylor et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We address the measurement of reverberation in terms of the (DRR) in the context of the assessment of dereverberation algorithms for which we wish to quantify the level of reverberation before and after processing. The DRR is normally calculated from the impulse response of the reverberating system. However, several important dereverberation algorithms involve nonlinear and/or time-varying processing and therefore their effect cannot conveniently be represented in terms of modifications to the impulse response of the reverberating system. In such cases, we show that a good estimate of DRR can be obtained from the input/output signals alone using the Signal-to-Reverberant Ratio (SRR) only if the source signal is spectrally white and correctly normalized. We study alternative normalization schemes and conclude by showing a least squares op