Active audition using the parameter-less self-organising map

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 401-417

  Berglund, Erik ^a   Sitte, Joaquin ^b   Wyeth, Gordon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Active audition; Self organisation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; MICROPHONES; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; ROBOTICS; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

ACTIVE AUDITION; DIRECTIONAL FILTERING; SELF ORGANIZATION;

POSITION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 40249104600     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10514-008-9084-9     Document Type: Article

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