Title :
A new strategy for tactile hearing aids: tactile identification of preclassified signals (TIPS)
Author :
Uvacek, Bohumir ; Ye, Haniyan ; Moschytz, George S.
Author_Institution :
Swiss Federal Inst. of Technol., Zurich, Switzerland
Abstract :
A strategy for tactile hearing aids that is useful in detection of acoustic alarm signals is proposed. Through TIPS (for tactile identification of preclassified signals), a significant decrease in learning time and an improvement of recognition performance is achieved compared with currently used devices. Experimental results for different classification methods computed with a database of 200 alarm signals, and the performance of the wearable experimental device SIGNALON are presented. A unifying interpretation of the performance of the applied methods and some preliminary results for further improvements are given
Keywords :
acoustic signal processing; hearing aids; mechanoception; signal detection; tactile sensors; SIGNALON; acoustic alarm signals detection; classification methods; database; learning time; preclassified signals; recognition performance; tactile hearing aids; tactile identification; wearable experimental device; Acoustic signal detection; Deafness; Hearing aids; Information processing; Pattern recognition; Signal processing; Signal processing algorithms; Skin; Speech; Vocoders;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1988. ICASSP-88., 1988 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
New York, NY
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.1988.197151
