Timbre can be defined as feature of an auditory stimulus that allows us to distinguish the sounds which have the same pitch and loudness. In this paper, we explore timbre based perceptual feature for singer identification. We start with a vocal detection process to extract the vocal segments from the sound. The cepstral coefficients, which reflect timbre characteristics, are then computed from ...

The aim of this paper is to identify an optimum control strategy of three-phase shunt active filters to minimize the total harmonic distortion factor of the supply current. A classical PIPI cascade control solution of the output current of the active filter and the voltage across the DC capacitor based on Modulus–Optimum criterion is taken into consideration. The control system operation has be...

Perceptual harmonic cepstral coefficients (PHCC) are proposed as features to extract from speech for recognition in noisy environments. A weighting function, which depends on the prominence of the harmonic structure, is applied to the power spectrum to ensure accurate representation of the voiced speech spectral envelope. The harmonics weighted power spectrum undergoes mel-scaled band-pass filt...

An effect discovered by Duifhuis [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 48, 888-893 (1970)], wherein an omitted high harmonic of a periodic complex tone is found to have an audible pitch, is extended to a variety of new broadband signal conditions. The effect is found to exist for flat spectra and spectra decreasing at 6 dB/octave, independent of phases as long as they are constant. The effect exists for alterna...

Due to the advancement in power electronic equipments and increase in the usage of non-linear loads in power distribution system, the undesirable harmonics are introduced that degrade the quality of power. Presence of harmonics are always detrimental to power system that results in irreversible failure of electrical components, sometimes apart from frequently known heating issues in it. There a...

This paper shows the method of improving the power quality using shunt active power filter. The proposed topic comprises of PI controller, filter hysteresis current control loop, dc link capacitor. The switching signal generation for filter is from hysteresis current controller techniques. With the all these element shunt active power filter reduce the total harmonic distortion. This paper repr...

Active power filter (APF) has now become a mature technology for harmonic and reactive power compensations in two-wire (single phase), three-wire (three phase without neutral), and four-wire (three phase with neutral) ac power networks with nonlinear loads. This paper presents a study on three different adaptive algorithms for active power filtering applications. These algorithms are adaptive l...

Modern power system networks use active power filters for compensation of harmonic currents generated by non linear loads. In this paper a new method for generating reference currents for harmonic and reactive power compensation is proposed. The proposed method has the advantage that it generates the reference currents irrespective of the supply voltage and load conditions. So the source has to...

This paper proposes a new adaptive filter for wind generators that combines instantaneous reactive power compensation technology and current prediction controller, and therefore this system is characterized by low harmonic distortion, high power factor, and small DC-link voltage variations during load disturbances. The performance of the system was first simulated using MATLAB/Simulink, and the...

This paper deals with two popular and powerful methods in noise and harmonic detection field of digital signal processing. The first one is the Windowing technique and the other one is wavelet transform. The proposed method uses these methods in the traditional synchronous fundamental dqframe algorithm. In other words, a windowing-wavelet based method is formed as a low pass filter. The Hamming...