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Barry L. Vercoe.
Smaragdis, Paris J
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Program in Media Arts and Sciences.
Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
2005-08-23T21:36:14Z
2005-08-23T21:36:14Z
2001
2001
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8599
49315318
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2001.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-120).
Computational audition has always been a subject of multiple theories. Unfortunately very few place audition in the grander scheme of perception, and even fewer facilitate formal and robust definitions as well as efficient implementations. In our work we set forth to address these issues. We present mathematical principles that unify the objectives of lower level listening functions, in an attempt to formulate a global and plausible theory of computational audition. Using tools to perform redundancy reduction, and adhering to theories of its incorporation in a perceptual framework, we pursue results that support our approach. Our experiments focus on three major auditory functions, preprocessing, grouping and scene analysis. For auditory preprocessing, we prove that it is possible to evolve cochlear-like filters by adaptation to natural sounds. Following that and using the same principles as in preprocessing, we present a treatment that collapses the heuristic set of the gestalt auditory grouping rules, down to one efficient and formal rule. We successfully apply the same elements once again to form an auditory scene analysis foundation, capable of detection, autonomous feature extraction, and separation of sources in real-world complex scenes. Our treatment was designed in such a manner so as to be independent of parameter estimations and data representations specific to the auditory domain. Some of our experiments have been replicated in other domains of perception, providing equally satisfying results, and a potential for defining global ground rules for computational perception, even outside the realm of our five senses.
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