Sound quality indicators for urban places in Paris cross-validated by Milan data

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 138, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 2337-2348

  Ricciardi, Paola ^a   Delaitre, Pauline ^b   Lavandier, Catherine ^b   Torchia, Francesca ^a   Aumond, Pierre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b Laboratoire ESO   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; DATA MINING; NEURAL NETWORKS; SURVEYS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK ALGORITHM; CROSS VALIDATION; GLOBAL MODELING; PERCEIVED LOUDNESS; SITE CLASSIFICATION; SMART-PHONE APPLICATIONS; SOUND ENVIRONMENT; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL;

SOUND REPRODUCTION;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CALIBRATION; CITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FRANCE; HEARING; HUMAN; ITALY; MOBILE APPLICATION; NOISE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEASON; SMARTPHONE; SOUND; THEORETICAL MODEL; URBAN POPULATION; VALIDATION STUDY;

CALIBRATION; CITIES; HUMANS; ITALY; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NOISE; PARIS; SEASONS; SMARTPHONE; SOUND; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84945906234     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4929747     Document Type: Article

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