I just read the Arnal paper. Very interesting, but now I’ll need to read up about the modulation power spectrum a bit more.
Anyway, here’s a quick list of some scream-related papers;
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Begault, Durand R., 'Forensic Analysis of the Audibility of Female Screams,' AES 33rd Conf.: Audio Forensics-Theory and Practice
(June 2008)
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K. Kato and A. Ito, "Acoustic Features and Auditory Impressions of Death Growl and Screaming Voice," 2013 Ninth International
Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, Beijing, 2013, pp. 460-463.
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Lopatka, Kuba; Czyzewski, Andrzej, 'Automatic Regular Voice, Raised Voice, and Scream Recognition Employing Fuzzy Logic,'
AES 132nd convention, Budapest, 2012
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M. Z. Zaheer, J. Y. Kim, H. G. Kim and S. Y. Na, "A Preliminary Study on Deep-Learning Based Screaming Sound Detection,"
2015 5th International Conference on IT Convergence and Security (ICITCS), Kuala Lumpur, 2015, pp. 1-4.
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P. Laffitte, D. Sodoyer, C. Tatkeu and L. Girin, "Deep neural networks for automatic detection of screams and shouted speech
in subway trains," 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Shanghai, 2016, pp. 6460-6464.
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L. Gerosa, G. Valenzise, M. Tagliasacchi, F. Antonacci and A. Sarti, "Scream and gunshot detection in noisy environments,"
2007 15th European Signal Processing Conference, Poznan, 2007, pp. 1216-1220.
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Sharma and S. Kaul, "Two-Stage Supervised Learning-Based Method to Detect Screams and Cries in Urban Environments," in IEEE/ACM
Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 290-299, Feb. 2016.
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M. K. Nandwana, A. Ziaei and J. H. L. Hansen, "Robust unsupervised detection of human screams in noisy acoustic environments,"
2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), South Brisbane, QLD, 2015, pp. 161-165.
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G. Valenzise, L. Gerosa, M. Tagliasacchi, F. Antonacci and A. Sarti, "Scream and gunshot detection and localization for audio-surveillance
systems," 2007 IEEE Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, London, 2007, pp. 21-26.
·
Weimin Huang, Tuan Kiang Chiew, Haizhou Li, Tian Shiang Kok and Jit Biswas, "Scream detection for home applications," 2010
5th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, Taichung, 2010, pp. 2115-2120.
The first two look most interesting, and the rest all seem to be mostly just ‘applying my favourite machine learning technique to scream
data’. The Kato paper is really about screams and growls in death metal music, which is quite different. Begault’s paper, though, has a fair bit of discussion of the spectra of screams. He notes “the local frequency modulation (‘warble’ or ‘vibrato’)” and
states that scream “frequency content seems almost tailored to frequencies of maximal sensitivity on an equal-loudness contour.” He also has some interesting discussion of investigations of scream audibility for a court case.
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Dear David,
You could have a look at the work of Luc Arnal. There is a recent and very nice paper in Current Biology 2015
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(15)00737-X
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Daniele
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Objet : Scream spectrum
Dear collective wisdom,
I recall reading somewhere (long ago) that most human screams exhibit a spectral peak in the 3 kHz region (more broadly, 2-5 kHz) coinciding with the threshold dip
due to the ear canal resonance. The implication is that screams are co-adapted to the most sensitive region of human hearing.
Can anyone point me to a suitable reference? Even literature reporting power spectrum data for human screams would be useful.
David Huron