Acoustic analysis of the infant cry: Classical and new methods

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 26 I, Issue , 2004, Pages 313-316

  Varallyay Jr G ^a   Benyo Z ^a   Illenyi A ^a   Farkas, Z ^b   Kovacs L ^a  

^a BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^b HEIM PÁL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Cry analysis; FLM; Fundamental frequency; Hearing screening; Infant cry; Signal processing; SSM

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

CRY ANALYSIS; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY; HEARING SCREENING;

ACOUSTICS;

EID: 11044231003     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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