A machine-hearing system exploiting head movements for binaural sound localisation in reverberant conditions

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 2015-August, Issue , 2015, Pages 2699-2703

  Ma, Ning ^a   May, Tobias ^b   Wierstorf, Hagen ^c   Brown, Guy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

binaural localisation; binaural room impulse response; head movements; machine hearing; reverberation

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING; IMPULSE NOISE; IMPULSE RESPONSE; REVERBERATION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ACOUSTIC SPACES; BINAURAL ROOM IMPULSE RESPONSE; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HEARING SYSTEM; HUMAN ABILITIES; LOCALISATION; REVERBERANT CONDITION; REVERBERANT ENVIRONMENT;

AUDITION;

EID: 84946060964     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178461     Document Type: Conference Paper

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