A spatial feature extraction and regularization model for the head-related transfer function

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 439-452

  Chen, Jiashu ^a   Van Veen, Barry D ^a   Hecox, Kurt E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CANAL; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BINAURAL HEARING; COMPUTER MODEL; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMAL; CATS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EAR, EXTERNAL; FEMALE; HEARING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0028837045     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.413110     Document Type: Article

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