Gammatone filter

A gammatone filter is a

The gammatone impulse response is given by

${\displaystyle g(t)=at^{n-1}e^{-2\pi bt}\cos(2\pi ft+\phi ),\,}$

where ${\displaystyle f}$ (in Hz) is the center frequency, ${\displaystyle \phi }$ (in

radians

) is the phase of the carrier, ${\displaystyle a}$ is the amplitude, ${\displaystyle n}$ is the filter's order, ${\displaystyle b}$ (in Hz) is the filter's bandwidth, and ${\displaystyle t}$ (in seconds) is time.

This time-domain impulse response is a sinusoid (a pure tone) with an amplitude envelope which is a scaled gamma distribution function.^[2]

Gammatone filterbank cepstral coefficients (GFCCs) are auditory features that have been used first in the speech domain, and later in the field of underwater target recognition.^{[citation needed]} A bank of gammatone filters is used as an improvement on the triangular filters conventionally used in mel scale filterbanks and MFCC features.

Different ways of motivating the gammatone filter for auditory processing have been presented by Johannesma,^[1] Patterson et al.,^[3] Hewitt and Meddis,^[4] and Lindeberg and Friberg.^[5]

Variations

Variations and improvements of the gammatone model of auditory filtering include the complex gammatone filter, the gammachirp filter, the all-pole and one-zero gammatone filters, the two-sided gammatone filter, and filter-cascade models, and various level-dependent and dynamically nonlinear versions of these.^[6] Lindeberg and Friberg define a new family of generalized gammatone filters.^[5]

References

External links

• Slaney's implementation in Mathematica
• Cooke's implementation in C Archived 2012-04-14 at the Wayback Machine
• A real-time implementation in C++ (for PureData)
• Ellis's "Gammatone-like spectrogram" in Matlab

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