Binaural sound source distance learning in rooms

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1498-1507

  Vesa, Sampo ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Binaural signal; Coherence; Distance measurement; Localization

Indexed keywords

BINAURAL SIGNAL; BINAURAL SIGNALS; COHERENCE; COHERENCE PROFILES; DESIRED POSITION; DISTANCE LEARNING; HORIZONTAL PLANES; LOCALIZATION; SOUND SOURCE; SPEECH SIGNALS; SPEECH SOUNDS; TRAINING DATA; TWO CHANNEL;

DISTANCE EDUCATION; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT;

ACOUSTIC GENERATORS;

EID: 69249087770     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2009.2022001     Document Type: Article

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