Human and machine hearing extracting meaning from sound

Human and Machine Hearing is the first book to comprehensively describe how human hearing works and how to build machines to analyze sounds in the same way that people do. Drawing on over thirty-five years of experience in analyzing hearing and building systems, Richard F. Lyon explains how we can n...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lyon, Richard F.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2017
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Collection: Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Theories of hearing
  • On logarithmic and power-law hearing
  • Human hearing overview
  • Acoustic approaches and auditory influence
  • Introduction to linear systems
  • Discrete-time and digital systems
  • Resonators
  • Gammatone and related filters
  • Nonlinear systems
  • Automatic gain control
  • Waves in distributed systems
  • Auditory filter models
  • Modeling the cochlea
  • The CARFAC digital cochlear model
  • The cascade of asymmetric resonators
  • The outer hair cell
  • The inner hair cell
  • The AGC loop filter
  • Auditory nerve and cochlear nucleus
  • The auditory image
  • Binaural spatial hearing
  • The auditory brain
  • Neural networks for machine learning
  • Feature spaces
  • Sound search
  • Musical melody matching
  • Other applications