• DocumentCode
    2520928
  • Title

    The thirteen colors of timbre

  • Author

    Terasawa, Hiroko ; Slaney, Malcolm ; Berger, Jonathan

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Music, Stanford Univ., CA, USA
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    16-19 Oct. 2005
  • Firstpage
    323
  • Lastpage
    326
  • Abstract
    We describe a perceptual space for timbre, define an objective metric that takes into account perceptual orthogonality and measure the quality of timbre interpolation. We discuss three timbre representations and measure perceptual judgments. We determine that a timbre space based on mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC) is a good model for a perceptual timbre space.
  • Keywords
    audio signal processing; cepstral analysis; mel-frequency cepstral coefficients; perceptual judgments; perceptual orthogonality; perceptual space; timbre interpolation; timbre representations; Acoustical engineering; Coordinate measuring machines; Decorrelation; Discrete cosine transforms; Extraterrestrial measurements; Humans; Mel frequency cepstral coefficient; Music; Speech; Timbre;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, 2005. IEEE Workshop on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-9154-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ASPAA.2005.1540234
  • Filename
    1540234