Effect of spectral centroid manipulation on discrimination and identification of instrument timbres

AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 575-583

  Wun, Simon ^a   Horner, Andrew ^a   Wu, Bin ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIO ACOUSTICS;

SPECTRAL TILT;

ENGINEERING;

EID: 84907484992     PISSN: 15494950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17743/jaes.2014.0035     Document Type: Article

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