The real time use of signal processing for brass instrument performance ~specifically the trombone! provides an opportunity, as well as challenges, to create a type of hyper-instrument quite unlike most conceptions of the term. These include the expansion of the available sound palette, the problem of real time parameter control, microphone techniques, and repertoire considerations. The various...

Hearing screening programs using otoacoustic emissions can have high false positive rates, due to temporary middle-ear and outer-ear disorders. This is especially the case for newborns, infants, and young children. Standard tympanometry is limited, uncomfortable, and unreliable in young ears. By incorporating wideband acoustic power flow measurements into hearing screening (using the same equip...

Mill load is an important equipment index which is closely related to operating efficiency, product quality and energy consumption of grinding process. Due to high dimension and collinearity of spectral data, mill load model has high complexity, poor interpretability and generalization. A soft sensor modeling method of mill load parameters is proposed based on frequency spectrum feature using S...

Visualization of sound propagation inside rooms is one of the main purposes of room acoustic simulations. Visualization is often applied in teaching, but also consultants need visualization to understand better the propagation of sound waves in complex cases. Traditionally, propagation paths of sound rays or image sources (representing reflections) have been applied in visualization. In additio...

Acoustic echo cancellers in today' s speakerphones or video conferencing systems rely on the assumption of a linear echo path. Low-cost audio equipment or constraints of portable communication systems cause nonlinear distortions, which limit the echo return loss enhancement achievable by linear adaptation schemes. These distortions are a superposition of different effects, which can be modelled...

We demonstrate that the propagation path of a surface acoustic wave (SAW), excited with an interdigitated transducer (IDT), can be visualized using a thin liquid film dispensed onto a lithium niobate (LiNbO3) substrate. The practical advantages of this visualization method are its rapid and simple implementation, with many potential applications including in characterising acoustic pumping with...

The task of building the underwater picture from sonar data is made complex by high volumes of noise and multiple data that arrive from a variety of acoustic sources detected at great distances by modern, sonar equipment. Typically, acoustic sources from ships have a complex spectrum consisting of several base frequency components and related harmonics. The task for operators is to analyse the ...

To provide a safe and reliable technique for rotor blade inspection, the lightning damages caused by any metal equipment inserted into the blade have to be eliminated. This paper, therefore, deals with an approach that consequently avoids any metal cables by applying optical fibers both for data communication as well as for the power supply. The used sensor network is specialized in acoustic em...

Original scientific paper Objective parameters of the room acoustics quality are obtained from the impulse response, which is measured using the appropriate PC based acoustic measurement system with two types of loudspeakers. Such measurement gives the impulse response that is the result of measurement of the entire system, which consists of the room and electro acoustics equipment. In order to...