Comparing timbre estimation using auditory models with and without hearing loss

Abstract

We propose a concept for evaluating signal transformations for music signals with respect to an individual hearing deficit by using an auditory model. This deficit is simulated in the model by changing specific model parameters. Our idea is extracting the musical attributes rhythm, pitch, loudness and timbre and comparing the modified model output to the original one. While rhythm, pitch, and loudness estimation are studied in previous works the focus in this paper concentrates on timbre estimation. Results are shown for the original auditory model and three models, each simulating a specific hearing loss.