ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Statistical and Perceptual Audition (SAPA2006) Pittsburgh, PA, USA September 16, 2006

A Probability Model for Interaural Phase Difference

Michael I. Mandel, Daniel P. W. Ellis

Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

In this paper, we derive a probability model for interaural phase differences at individual spectrogram points. Such a model can combine observations across arbitrary time and frequency regions in a structured way and does not make any assumptions about the characteristics of the sound sources. In experiments with speech from twenty speakers in simulated reverberant environments, this probabilistic method predicted the correct interaural delay of a signal more accurately than generalized cross-correlation methods.

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Bibliographic reference.  Mandel, Michael I. / Ellis, Daniel P. W. (2006): "A probability model for interaural phase difference", In SAPA-2006, 1-6.