XXXVI. On binaural audition

Multibin: a Binaural Audition Tool

MultiBin is a new tool for binaural audition of multiple sound sources in a user definable environment. Although designed to be flexible in its application, its primary function is to provide dynamic multi-channel binaural simulation. It is built upon two new Csound binaural reverberation opcodes. An early reflection opcode, based on an image source method and a Head-Related Transfer Function i...

Robust Localization of Multiple Speech Sources Based on Time Difference of Arrival in Real Environments for Binaural Robot Audition

This paper presents a multisource speech localization method based on the generalized cross-correlation (GCC) method weighted by the phase transform (PHAT) for binaural robot audition. The direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation based on the GCC-PHAT method was extended to enable simultaneous multiple DOA estimations with a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)-based weighting function. The standard K-mean...

Notes on Some Remedies. XXXVI. Penicillin

The COPD Pipeline XXXVI.

Contract Pharma is a publication that reviews, among other things, the pharmaceutical industry annually. Those of us who work in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) take an interest in the source of the drugs we use and Contract Pharma brings that information to us. Each year they report the status of the top 25 pharmaceutical companies.1 For each pharma, a report lists the newly appro...

The biological basis of audition.

Audition is one of the fundamental extrasensory percepts in mammals. Two of the primary objectives of audition are to determine where sounds originate from in space and what those sounds are. Neural processing of acoustic signals, which are commonly quite complex under natural conditions, is extensive in the brainstem, midbrain, and thalamus. This processing extracts multiple salient features t...