Extracting sound-source-distance information from binaural signals

The Technology of Binaural Listening

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 171-199

  Georganti, E ^a   May, T ^b   Van De Par, S ^c   Mourjopoulos, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICAL PARAMETERS; AUDITORY DISTANCES; CLASSIFICATION FRAMEWORK; DISTANCE ESTIMATION; DISTANCE INFORMATION; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; REVERBERANT ROOM; STATISTICAL FEATURES;

DEPTH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84924030835     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-37762-4_7     Document Type: Chapter

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