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Application of Different Time-Frequency Analysis to Psychoacoustic Description of Car Engine Noise

Authors: Camacho, Andres; De Diego, Maria; Fuster, Laura; Gonzalez, Alberto; Pinero, Gema

AES Convention 118 · Paper 6459 · May 2005

Abstract

A new approach to the evaluation of subjective perception of car engine noise is presented in this paper. It makes use of different Time Frequency (TF) methods that are applied to the calculation of some TF parameters of the noise signals, mainly related to energy variations. Once these parameters have been computed, they are linearly combined through a multiple regression model to describe the most important psychoacoustic features of the noises: loudness, sharpness and roughness. As a result, loudness and sharpness can be well defined by TF energies, whereas roughness needs a deeper study to elaborate new parameters that might fit it. A discussion about the ability of the different TF techniques to correlate with psychoacoustic metrics is also given.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 118
AES Convention
118
Paper number
6459
Publication date
May 6, 2005
Session subject
Psychoacoustics, Perception, Listening Tests
Affiliation
Univ. Politecnica de Valencia (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper