Adaptive environment classification system for hearing aids

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 3124-3135

  Lamarche, Luc ^a   Giguère, Christian ^a   Gueaieb, Wail ^a   Aboulnasr, Tyseer ^a   Othman, Hisham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CLASSIFIERS; BAYESIAN CLASSIFICATION; BAYESIAN CLASSIFIER; DAILY LIVES; ENVIRONMENT CLASSIFICATION; HEARING AID; LONG-TERM GOALS; MINIMUM DISTANCE; MINIMUM DISTANCE CLASSIFIERS; REAL-WORLD; SOUND CLASSIFICATION; TESTING ACCURACY;

ACOUSTICS LABORATORIES; ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; AUDITION; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; HEARING AIDS;

CLASSIFIERS;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATION; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HUMAN; MALE; MUSIC; NOISE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATION; BAYES THEOREM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUSIC; NOISE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH ACOUSTICS;

EID: 77956236851     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3365301     Document Type: Article

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