Classification of transient sonar sounds using perceptually motivated features

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 588-600

  Tucker, Simon ^a   Brown, Guy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory model; Passive sonar; Transient analysis; Transient classification

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ALGORITHMS; SONAR; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AUDITORY MODEL; PASSIVE SONAR; TEMPORAL WINDOWS; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS; TRANSIENT CLASSIFICATION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 33144476429     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2005.850910     Document Type: Article

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