关键词: 基频估计, 听觉外围模型, 循环平均幅度差函数

Abstract: The transient components of audio signals may reduce the reliability of fundamental frequency estimation. A fundamental frequency estimation method based on auditory peripheral model is proposed in this paper. The auditory peripheral model is adopted to mimic the transduction in the auditory nerve of the inner hair cells, and a circular average magnitude difference function is used to judge the periodicity of the response of auditory nerve for estimating the fundamental frequency of audio signals. Experimental evaluations show that the proposed method can accurately estimate the fundamental frequency of the clean audio signals. With the percussive interference in different volumes, the proposed method also achieves a lower error rate in comparison with three reference methods.

Key words: fundamental frequency estimation, auditory peripheral model, circular average magnitude difference function