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Re: Phd copy request (Weintraub 1985)

Hello All,
 
I'm unsure how it compares to Weintraub's method, but Volker Hohmann also produced some work regarding synthesis at the output of a gamma-tone filter bank.  The citation and abstract are below.
 
Cheers,
Bill Woods
Principal Research Scientist
Starkey Hearing Research Center
Berkeley, CA
 
V. Hohmann
Frequency analysis and synthesis using a Gammatone filterbank
ACTA ACUSTICA UNITED WITH ACUSTICA  Vol. 88 (2002) 433 – 442
 
This paper describes an efficient implementation of the 4th-order linear Gammatone filter [1, 2] based on an
impulse-invariant, all-pole design. A linear auditory filterbank is constructed from these filters, which has been used in several applications involving computational auditory peripheral filtering [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]. Additionally, a novel approach to the recombination of the Gammatone filterbank output is introduced that allows for the resynthesis of the signal with a total time delay of 4ms. The signal reconstruction is nearly perfect, i.e., the difference between input and reconstructed output is barely audible. A detailed technical description of the analysis-synthesis system is given and an implementation using the Matlab programming environment is introduced, which is available online. A possible application of the analysis/synthesis system introduced here is speech processing for hearing aids.
 
 
 
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AUDITORY - Research in Auditory Perception
> [mailto:AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Guy Brown
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 2:17 AM
> To: AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Phd copy request (Weintraub 1985)
>
> Dear Marc,
>
> I had a 1994 paper with Martin Cooke that explains the resynthesis
> method (as you note, this was originally due to Weintraub). You can
> download the paper here:
>
> http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~guy/pdf/csl.pdf
>
> Let me know if you have further questions.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Guy Brown
>
> ===
>
> On 31 Oct 2008, at 10:27, Marc wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I am looking for a copy of the following PhD:
> > Weintraub, M., 1985, A theory and computational model of auditory
> > monaural sound separation, Ph.D.
> > Dissertation, Stanford University Department of Electrical
> > Engineering.
> >
> > To see the details of the resynthesis method used by Guy J. Brown
> > and Martin Cooke 1994 in
> > "Computational auditory scene analysis" (apparently inverting the
> > output of the gammatone filters).
> >
> > I can't have access to it through the net and the libraries of my
> > town...
> > Does anybody know where this phd might be accessible?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Marc