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Wavelet Scattering on the Pitch Spiral

Sound 2016-01-05 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

We present a new representation of harmonic sounds that linearizes the dynamics of pitch and spectral envelope, while remaining stable to deformations in the time-frequency plane. It is an instance of the scattering transform, a generic operator which cascades wavelet convolutions and modulus nonlinearities. It is derived from the pitch spiral, in that convolutions are successively performed in time, log-frequency, and octave index. We give a closed-form approximation of spiral scattering coefficients for a nonstationary generalization of the harmonic source-filter model.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1601.00287,
  title  = {Wavelet Scattering on the Pitch Spiral},
  author = {Vincent Lostanlen and Stéphane Mallat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.00287},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-15), Trondheim, Norway, Nov 30 - Dec 3, 2015, pp. 429--432. 4 pages, 3 figures

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