Title :
A Novel Approach to Bass Enhancement in Automobile Cabin
Author :
Wang, Liang ; Gan, Woon Seng ; Chong, Yong Kim ; Kuo, Sen M.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ.
Abstract :
An audio enhancement system is presented to improve the sound quality, especially the bass reproduction in the automobile cabin. High quality audio reproduction in cabin can be difficult due to a number of factors, including the noise in the cabin, performance, size of the loudspeakers in the car. The proposed system uses digital signal processing techniques with the built-in car audio system to tune and make use of the engine noise. The main problems are the tracking of the engine noise and tune the noise to match the audio signal. In this paper, we propose a solution based on frequency sampling filters to track and extract the audio signal, and a multi-frequency active noise equalizer to tune the engine noise. The results showed that the proposed system could be a promising approach for solving the bass audio reproduction, together with the noise control problems in automobile
Keywords :
acoustic noise; acoustic signal processing; active noise control; audio acoustics; audio signal processing; automobiles; equalisers; filtering theory; loudspeakers; signal sampling; sound reproduction; audio enhancement system; audio reproduction; automobile cabin; bass enhancement; built-in car audio system; digital signal processing techniques; engine noise; frequency sampling filters; loudspeakers; multifrequency active noise equalizer; noise control problems; Acoustic noise; Active noise reduction; Audio systems; Automobiles; Digital signal processing; Engines; Filters; Frequency; Loudspeakers; Signal sampling;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2006. ICASSP 2006 Proceedings. 2006 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Toulouse
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0469-X
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.2006.1660879