This paper won the Philips sponsored prize for Best paper in Electronics . It is a condensed version of the paper of the same name given at the 107 th AES conference . Full paper in PDF format Prize Presentation Newspaper cutting The Human Auditory System. D J M Robinson Lecture notes to accompany the Network Services short course, University of Essex, March 2000. These notes include the diagrams used within the lecture, as well as a description of the material covered.
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You will not be examined on the contents of this lecture, but knowledge of the human auditory system will aid you in your understanding of the various audio-coding schemes that will be covered tomorrow. The spectral analysis function of the inner ear is simulated by a non-linear filter bank, while the temporal response is simulated by complex filtering of the envelope. The spectral and temporal masking properties of the model are calibrated with known data. The effectiveness of this model in predicting the perceived quality of coded audio streams is examined. Full paper in PDF format View an illustration of human hearing A Binaural simulation which renders out of head localisation with low cost digital signal processing of Head Related Transfer Functions and pseudo reverberation.