Modeling perceptual effects of reverberation on stereophonic sound reproduction in rooms

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 229-242

  Zarouchas, Thomas ^a   Mourjopoulos, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIO SIGNAL; AUDITORY MASKING; MAPPING MODULES; PERCEPTUAL EFFECTS; PERCEPTUAL MAP; QUANTITATIVE METRICS; RESPONSE PROPERTIES; REVERBERATION TIME; SPATIAL POSITIONS; STATISTICAL APPROACH; STEREO AUDIO SIGNAL; TIME-FREQUENCY MAP;

ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; SIGNAL ANALYSIS;

REVERBERATION;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; DISTORTION PRODUCT OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; HISTOGRAM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR MODEL; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND; SPEECH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; ARCHITECTURE AS TOPIC; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EAR; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 68149115897     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3129382     Document Type: Article

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