The Significance of Tonality Index and Non-linear Psychoacoustics Models for Masking Threshold Estimation

Kurniawati E, Absar J, George S, Lau CT, Premkumar B. The Significance of Tonality Index and Non-linear Psychoacoustics Models for Masking Threshold Estimation. In: AES Conference: 22nd International Conference: Virtual, Synthetic, and Entertainment Audio. Audio Engineering Society; 2002. Paper 000218. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=11156

@inproceedings{Kurniawati2002_11156,
  author = {Kurniawati, Evelyn and Absar, Javed and George, Sapna and Lau, Chiew Tong and Premkumar, Benjamin},
  title = {{The Significance of Tonality Index and Non-linear Psychoacoustics Models for Masking Threshold Estimation}},
  booktitle = {AES Conference: 22nd International Conference: Virtual, Synthetic, and Entertainment Audio},
  note = {Paper 000218},
  year = {2002},
  month = jun,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=11156}
}

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TI  - The Significance of Tonality Index and Non-linear Psychoacoustics Models for Masking Threshold Estimation
AU  - Kurniawati, Evelyn
AU  - Absar, Javed
AU  - George, Sapna
AU  - Lau, Chiew Tong
AU  - Premkumar, Benjamin
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DA  - 2002/06/06
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AB  - This paper presents a method to improve the classical transform based psychoacoustics model to better suit the physiological ear model, which is more accurate in approximating the masking threshold obtained from the psycho acoustical measurement. The linear additivity assumption for simultaneous masking is identified as main reason behind the lower threshold obtained from a classical transform based PAM. Different method to estimate tonality index is investigated and the inclusion of its measure in the nonlinear psychoacoustics model is proposed. Subjective listening test proves that our non-linear PAM performs better than its linear counterparts.
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