Title :
Bark scale equalizer design using warped filter
Author :
Peng, Wang ; Ser, Wee ; Zhang, Ming
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore
Abstract :
Bark scale (also called critical band rate in the literature) has attracted increasing attention among audio engineers as a good measurement of the frequency resolving ability of the human auditory system. The warped filter technique has been applied to the Bark scale to construct an equalizer for a low-cost loudspeaker system. In a simulation, the resulting equalizer displays an overall better equalization effect than the conventional deconvolution-based equalizer
Keywords :
audio signal processing; band-pass filters; equalisers; hearing; loudspeakers; Bark scale equalizer; audio signal processing; band pass filters; bandwidth maximization; critical band rate; frequency resolving ability; human auditory system; loudspeaker system; low frequency distortion; warped filter; Auditory system; Bandwidth; Equalizers; Finite impulse response filter; Frequency measurement; Humans; IIR filters; Loudspeakers; Optimization methods; Signal processing;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2001. Proceedings. (ICASSP '01). 2001 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Salt Lake City, UT
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7041-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.2001.940368