Evaluation of Mel-Band and MFCC-Based Error Metrics for Correspondence to Discrimination of Spectrally Altered Musical Instrument Sounds

Horner AB, Beauchamp JW, So RHY. Evaluation of Mel-Band and MFCC-Based Error Metrics for Correspondence to Discrimination of Spectrally Altered Musical Instrument Sounds. J Audio Eng Soc. 2011;59(5):290-303. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=15930

@article{Horner2011_15930,
  author = {Horner, Andrew B. and Beauchamp, James W. and So, Richard H. Y},
  title = {{Evaluation of Mel-Band and MFCC-Based Error Metrics for Correspondence to Discrimination of Spectrally Altered Musical Instrument Sounds}},
  journal = {Journal of the Audio Engineering Society},
  volume = {59},
  number = {5},
  pages = {290--303},
  year = {2011},
  month = may,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=15930}
}

TY  - JOUR
TI  - Evaluation of Mel-Band and MFCC-Based Error Metrics for Correspondence to Discrimination of Spectrally Altered Musical Instrument Sounds
AU  - Horner, Andrew B.
AU  - Beauchamp, James W.
AU  - So, Richard H. Y
T2  - Journal of the Audio Engineering Society
J2  - J. Audio Eng. Soc.
VL  - 59
IS  - 5
SP  - 290
EP  - 303
PY  - 2011
DA  - 2011/05/06
UR  - https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=15930
PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - An objective measure of the subjective timbral difference between two musical sounds is a difficult problem. Mel-band-based metrics and single mel-frequency ceptral coefficient were considered as a way of improving results obtained from previous methods based on harmonic and critical-band error metrics. Results indicate that timbral discrimination is determined by the first 5 to 10 harmonics rather than the broad spectral envelope. More sophisticated methods do not offer significant advantage.
ER  -