Reverberation

Computational Auditory Scene Analysis: Principles, Algorithms, and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 209-250

  Brown, Guy J ^a   Palomäki, Kalle J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

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DOI: 10.1109/9780470043387.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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