Sound direction estimation using artificial ear

ICCAS 2007 - International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1906-1910

  Hwang, Sungmok ^a   Park, Youngjin ^a   Park, Younsik ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Artificial ear; Head related transfer function; Interaural transfer function; Sound direction estimation

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY BANDS; FUNCTIONS; MACHINE DESIGN; MICROPHONES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADIO DIRECTION FINDING SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS;

ARTIFICIAL EAR; BILATERAL ASYMMETRIES; ESTIMATION METHODS; ESTIMATION PERFORMANCES; HEAD-RELATED TRANSFER FUNCTION; INTERAURAL TIME DIFFERENCES; INTERAURAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; MICROPHONE POSITIONS; NOVEL DESIGNS; OUTPUT SIGNALS; REAL ENVIRONMENTS; REASONABLE ACCURACIES; SOUND CUES; SOUND DIRECTION ESTIMATION; SPECTRAL FEATURES;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

EID: 48349089105     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCAS.2007.4406658     Document Type: Conference Paper

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