We apply the modal distribution, a high-resolution time-frequency distribution, to the study of sung musical passages. Evidence is presented comparing the modal distribution with the spectrogram for a set of synthetic signals which emulate human singing. We then compare the two techniques for sung passages from four student sopranos with respect to measures of the instantaneous frequency and am...

Motivated by the limitation of analyzing oscillatory signals composed of multiple compo-nents with fast-varying instantaneous frequency, we approach the time-frequency analysisproblem by optimization. Based on the proposed adaptive harmonic model, the time-frequency representation of a signal is obtained by directly minimizing a functional, whichinvolves few properties an “ideal...

The recruitment phenomenon, that is, the reduced dynamic range between threshold and uncomfortable level, is attributed to the loss of instantaneous dynamic compression on the basilar membrane. Despite this, hearing aids commonly use slow-acting dynamic compression for its compensation, because this was found to be the most successful strategy in terms of speech quality and intelligibility reha...

We present a method for estimating the instantaneous frequency of the multi-component signals. This method involves the calculation of a time-frequency energy density of the signal, then obtaining an instantaneous frequency estimation from this joint density. Time-frequency energy density is calculated as a least squares optimal combination of multi-window Gabor based evolutionary spectra. The ...

The aim of this paper is to present a new method for the estimation of the instantaneous frequency of a frequency modulated signal, corrupted by additive noise. This method represents an example of fusion of two theories: the timefrequency representations and the mathematical morphology. Any time-frequency representation of a useful signal is concentrated around its instantaneous frequency law ...

2. QUADRATIC TIME-FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS AND AMBIGUITY FUNCTION In this paper, the properties Of the recently Proposed B-distribution are investigated. We show that this distribution satisfies most of the desirable properties sought for a time-frequency distribution. Quadratic (also known as Cohen’s) class of time-frequency distributions is defined by the following expression [31: That is, we ...

This paper presents a new method for robust voiced/unvoiced segment (V/UV) classification and accurate fundamental frequency ( ) estimation in a noisy environment. For this purpose, we introduce the degree of dominance and dominance spectrum that are defined by instantaneous frequency. The degree of dominance allows us to evaluate the magnitude of individual harmonic components of speech signal...

This paper presents a new method for robust voiced/unvoiced segment (V/UV) classification and accurate fundamental frequency ( ) estimation in a noisy environment. For this purpose, we introduce the degree of dominance and dominance spectrum that are defined by instantaneous frequency. The degree of dominance allows us to evaluate the magnitude of individual harmonic components of speech signal...