Combining approximate front end signal processing with selective reprocessing in auditory perception

  • Authors:
  • Frank Klassner;Victor Lesser;Hamid Nawab

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA;Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA;ECE Department, Boston University, Boston, MA

  • Venue:
  • AAAI'97/IAAI'97 Proceedings of the fourteenth national conference on artificial intelligence and ninth conference on Innovative applications of artificial intelligence
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

When dealing with signals from complex environments, where multiple time-dependent signal signatures can interfere with each other in stochastically unpredictable ways, traditional perceptual systems tend to fall back on a strategy of always performing finely-detailed, costly analysis of the signal with a comprehensive front end set of signal processing algorithms (SPAs), whether or not the current scenario requires the extra detail. Approximate SPAs (ASPAs) - algorithms whose processing time can be limited in order to trade off precision in their outputs for reduced execution time - can playa role in producing adaptive, less-costly front ends, but their outputs tend to require context-dependent analysis for use as evidence in interpretation. This paper examines the IPUS (Integrated Processing and Understanding of Signals) architecture's ability to serve as a support framework for applying ASPAs in interpretation problems. Specifically, our work shows that it is feasible to include an approximate version of the Short-Time Fourier Transform in an IPUS-based sound-understanding testbed.