• DocumentCode
    2357841
  • Title

    Contour representations of sound

  • Author

    Yoonseob Lim ; Shinn-Cunningham, Barbara ; Gardner, Timothy

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. Cognitive & Neural Syst., Boston Univ., Boston, MA, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    16-19 Oct. 2011
  • Firstpage
    317
  • Lastpage
    320
  • Abstract
    We consider how the continuity of form in natural sounds may be used to discover sparse time-frequency representations. To proceed, we describe a method to represent any sound as a collection of contours in the time-frequency plane. By analysing the signal in many time-scales, an over-complete set of shapes is generated for a given sound. From this redundant set of shapes the simplest, most parsimonious mathematical forms may be selected.
  • Keywords
    audio signal processing; signal representation; time-frequency analysis; contour representations; natural sounds; sparse time-frequency representations; time-frequency plane; Atomic measurements; Humans; Speech; Gestalt principle; kernel optimization; sparse representation; time-frequency analysis;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), 2011 IEEE Workshop on
  • Conference_Location
    New Paltz, NY
  • ISSN
    1931-1168
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0692-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1931-1168
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ASPAA.2011.6082322
  • Filename
    6082322