Modeling subjective evaluation of soundscape quality in urban open spaces: An artificial neural network approach

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1163-1174

  Yu, Lei ^a   Kang, Jian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC COMFORT; APPLICATION RANGE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK APPROACH; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK MODELS; COMPUTER-BASED MODELS; DESIGN STAGE; FIELD SURVEYS; GENERAL MODEL; OPEN SPACE; POTENTIAL USERS; PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS; QUALITY EVALUATION; QUALITY MAPS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOUND LEVEL; SOUNDSCAPES; STUDY SITES; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS;

ACOUSTICS; BACKPROPAGATION; MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; RESEARCH;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CHINA; COMPUTER MODEL; EUROPE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOUND LEVEL MEASUREMENT; URBAN AREA;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHINA; CITIES; EMOTIONS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NOISE; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOUND; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 70349087802     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3183377     Document Type: Article

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