A Digital Filter for Stochastic Systems with Unknown Structure and Its Application to Psychological Evaluation of Sound Environment

Akira IKUTA  Hisako MASUIKE  Mitsuo OHTA 

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems  Vol.E88-D  No.7  pp.1519-1525
Publication Date: 2005/07/01
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Print ISSN: 0916-8532
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Recent Advances in Circuits and Systems--Part 1)
Category: Adaptive Signal Processing
Keyword: 
unknown structural systemquantized observationdigital filterpsychological evaluationsound environment

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Summary: 
The actual sound environment system exhibits various types of linear and non-linear characteristics, and it often contains an unknown structure. Furthermore, the observations in the sound environment are often in the level-quantized form. In this paper, a method for estimating the specific signal for stochastic systems with unknown structure and the quantized observation is proposed by introducing a system model of the conditional probability type. The effectiveness of the proposed theoretical method is confirmed by applying it to the actual problem of psychological evaluation for the sound environment.