Time-Instant Sampling Based Encoding of Time-Varying Acoustic Spectrum

Sharma, Neeraj Kumar (2015) Time-Instant Sampling Based Encoding of Time-Varying Acoustic Spectrum. In: 12th International Workshop on the Mechanics of Hearing, JUN 23-29, 2014, Cape Sounio, GREECE.

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Abstract

The inner ear has been shown to characterize an acoustic stimuli by transducing fluid motion in the inner ear to mechanical bending of stereocilia on the inner hair cells (IHCs). The excitation motion/energy transferred to an IHC is dependent on the frequency spectrum of the acoustic stimuli, and the spatial location of the IHC along the length of the basilar membrane (BM). Subsequently, the afferent auditory nerve fiber (ANF) bundle samples the encoded waveform in the IHCs by synapsing with them. In this work we focus on sampling of information by afferent ANFs from the IHCs, and show computationally that sampling at specific time instants is sufficient for decoding of time-varying acoustic spectrum embedded in the acoustic stimuli. The approach is based on sampling the signal at its zero-crossings and higher-order derivative zero-crossings. We show results of the approach on time-varying acoustic spectrum estimation from cricket call signal recording. The framework gives a time-domain and non-spatial processing perspective to auditory signal processing. The approach works on the full band signal, and is devoid of modeling any bandpass filtering mimicking the BM action. Instead, we motivate the approach from the perspective of event-triggered sampling by afferent ANFs on the stimuli encoded in the IHCs. Though the approach gives acoustic spectrum estimation but it is shallow on its complete understanding for plausible bio-mechanical replication with current mammalian auditory mechanics insights.

Item Type:	Conference Proceedings
Series.:	AIP Conference Proceedings
Publisher:	AMER INST PHYSICS
Additional Information:	Copy right for this article belongs to theAMER INST PHYSICS, 2 HUNTINGTON QUADRANGLE, STE 1NO1, MELVILLE, NY 11747-4501 USA
Department/Centre:	Division of Electrical Sciences > Electrical Communication Engineering
Date Deposited:	12 Apr 2016 06:28
Last Modified:	12 Apr 2016 06:28
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/53665

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