Human and Machine Hearing: Extracting Meaning from Sound

ISBN-13: 9781107007536 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 586 str.

Richard F. Lyon

Opis

This book describes how human hearing works and how to build machines that analyze sounds in the same way that people do.

Recenzje

'This is a wonderfully written and much-needed book, written by a true world-class expert in the field. It is an ideal reference for students and professional researchers alike - authoritative and delightfully readable. It provides the best and most up-to-date coverage of auditory neuroscience and modeling there is.' Daniel J. Levitin, best-selling author of This Is Your Brain on Music

Spis treści

Part I. Sound Analysis and Representation Overview: 1. Introduction; 2. Theories of hearing; 3. On logarithmic and power-law hearing; 4. Human hearing overview; 5. Acoustic approaches and auditory influence; Part II. Systems Theory of Hearing: 6. Introduction to linear systems; 7. Discrete-time and digital systems; 8. Resonators; 9. Gammatone and related filters; 10. Nonlinear systems; 11. Automatic gain control; 12. Waves in distributed systems; Part III. The Auditory Periphery: 13. Auditory filter models; 14. Modeling the cochlea; 15. The CARFAC digital cochlear model; 16. The cascade of asymmetric resonators; 17. The outer hair cell; 18. The inner hair cell; 19. The AGC loop filter; Part IV. The Auditory Nervous System: 20. Auditory nerve and cochlear nucleus; 21. The auditory image; 22. Binaural spatial hearing; 23. The auditory brain; Part V. Learning and Applications: 24. Neural networks for machine learning; 25. Feature space; 26. Sound search; 27. Musical melody matching; 28. Other applications.