Computational Auditory Scene Analysis - 9780367447847

CRC Press

Computational Auditory Scene AnalysisProceedings of the Ijcai-95 Workshop\nAuthor(s): David F. Rosenthal, Hiroshi G. Okuno, Hiroshi Okuno, David Rosenthal\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: CRC Press\nISBN-13: 9780367447847, 978-0367447847\nSynopsis\nThe interest of AI in problems related to understanding sounds has a rich history dating back to the ARPA Speech Understanding Project in the 1970s. While a great deal has been learned from this and subsequent speech understanding research, the goal of building systems that can understand general acoustic signals--continuous speech and/or non-speech sounds--from unconstrained environments is still unrealized. Instead, there are now systems that understand \""clean\"" speech well in relatively noiseless laboratory environments, but that break down in more realistic, noisier environments. As seen in the \""cocktail-party effect,\"" humans and other mammals have the ability to selectively attend to.