Signal representation and estimation of spectral parameters by inharmonic comb filters with application to the piano

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 197-203

  Galembo, Alexander ^a   Askenfelt, Anders ^b,c  

^a SECHENOV INSTITUTE OF EVOLUTIONARY PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Comb filter; Inharmonicity; Musical tone analysis; Piano; Pitch, string; Visual representation of sounds

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS;

INHARMONIC COMB FILTERS; SIGNAL REPRESENTATION;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0033096699     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.748124     Document Type: Article

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