Feature extraction for the prediction of multichannel spatial audio fidelity

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1994-2005

  George, Sunish ^a   Zielinski, Slawomir ^a   Rumsey, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Frontal spatial fidelity; Ridge regression; Spatial feature; Spectral feature; Surround spatial fidelity

Indexed keywords

FRONTAL SPATIAL FIDELITY; RIDGE REGRESSION; SPATIAL FEATURE; SPECTRAL FEATURE; SURROUND SPATIAL FIDELITY;

CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; TESTING;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 64549145747     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2006.883248     Document Type: Article

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