Joint acoustic and modulation frequency

  • Authors:
  • Les Atlas;Shihab A. Shamma

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering, Seattle, WA;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Center for Auditory and Acoustic Research, Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

  • Venue:
  • EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

There is a considerable evidence that our perception of sound uses important features which are related to underlying signal modulations. This topic has been studied extensively via perceptual experiments, yet there are few, if any, well-developed signal processing methods which capitalize on or model these effects. We begin by summarizing evidence of the importance of modulation representations from psychophysical, physiological, and other sources. The concept of a two-dimensional joint acoustic and modulation frequency representation is proposed. A simple single sinusoidal amplitude modulator of a sinusoidal carrier is then used to illustrate properties of an unconstrained and ideal joint representation. Added constraints are required to remove or reduce undesired interference terms and to provide invertibility. It is then noted that the constraints would be also applied to more general and complex cases of broader modulation and carriers. Applications in single-channel speaker separation and in audio coding are used to illustrate the applicability of this joint representation. Other applications in signal analysis and filtering are suggested.