The thirteen colors of timbre
Terasawa, H.; Slaney, M.; Berger, J.
Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, 2005. IEEE Workshop on
Volume , Issue , 16-19 Oct. 2005 Page(s): 323 - 326
Digital Object Identifier   10.1109/ASPAA.2005.1540234
Summary: We describe a perceptual space for timbre, define an objective metric that takes into account perceptual orthogonality and measure the quality of timbre interpolation. We discuss three timbre representations and measure perceptual judgments. We determine that a timbre space based on mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC) is a good model for a perceptual timbre space.

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