Sound Cities: Computational modelling of urban soundscape quality

42nd International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering 2013, INTER-NOISE 2013: Noise Control for Quality of Life

Volumn 7, Issue , 2013, Pages 5594-5599

  Axelsson, Östen ^a   Lundén, Peter ^b   Nilsson, Mats E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Information load; Music information retrieval technology; Soundscape quality

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL; ACOUSTICS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NOISE POLLUTION;

ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENT; ACOUSTIC INDICATORS; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; MUSIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PLANNING AND DESIGN; PSYCHOACOUSTIC EXPERIMENTS; PSYCHOLOGICAL VARIABLES; SOUNDSCAPES;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 84904479894     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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