Detection performances of experienced human operators compared to a likelihood ratio based detector

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 200-204

  Urazghildiiev, Ildar R ^a   Clark, Christopher W ^a  

^a Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARM SYSTEMS; CORRELATION DETECTORS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

GENERALIZED LIKELIHOOD RATIO TEST (GLRT); POLYNOMIAL PHASE SIGNALS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; HUMAN; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND DETECTION; ANIMAL; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; HEARING; INSTRUMENTATION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEARING; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NOISE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 34547444667     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2735114     Document Type: Article

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