Envelope analysis methods for tonality estimation

Taghipour A, Desikan B, Edler B (2016)


Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2016

Publisher: IEEE

Pages Range: 1148-1152

Conference Proceedings Title: Proc. 24th Eur. Signal Process. Conf. (EUSIPCO)

ISBN: 978-0-9928-6265-7

DOI: 10.1109/EUSIPCO.2016.7760428

Abstract

In perceptual audio coders, the audio signal masks the quantization noise. The masking effectiveness depends on the degree of tonality/noisiness of the signal. Hence, in psychoacoustic models (PM) of perceptual coders, the level of the estimated masking thresholds can be adjusted by tonality estimation methods. This paper introduces three envelope analysis methods for tonality estimation: optimized amplitude modulation ratio (AM-R), auditory image correlation, and temporal envelope rate. The methods were implemented in a filter bank-based PM. In a subjective quality test, they were compared to each other and to another existing method, partial spectral flatness measure (PSFM). The PSFM and the AM-R were rated significantly higher than the other methods.

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APA:

Taghipour, A., Desikan, B., & Edler, B. (2016). Envelope analysis methods for tonality estimation. In Proc. 24th Eur. Signal Process. Conf. (EUSIPCO) (pp. 1148-1152). IEEE.

MLA:

Taghipour, Armin, Bharadwaj Desikan, and Bernd Edler. "Envelope analysis methods for tonality estimation." Proceedings of the Proc. 24th Eur. Signal Process. Conf. (EUSIPCO) IEEE, 2016. 1148-1152.

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