Hearing shapes: auditory recognition of two-dimensional spatial patterns

Phillippia Simmons; H. John Caulfield; John L. Johnson; Marius P. Schamschula; Frank T. Allen; Jason M. Kinser

doi:10.1117/12.258121

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11 November 1996 Hearing shapes: auditory recognition of two-dimensional spatial patterns

Phillippia Simmons, H. John Caulfield, John L. Johnson, Marius P. Schamschula, Frank T. Allen, Jason M. Kinser

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Proceedings Volume 2824, Adaptive Computing: Mathematical and Physical Methods for Complex Environments; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.258121
Event: SPIE's 1996 International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1996, Denver, CO, United States

Abstract

In the many years that pattern recognition has been of interest, there have ben many clever advances. One recent advance is the pulse-coupled neural network (PCNN). Due to recent developments in PCNNs, it is becoming increasingly possible to recognize images in space regardless of scale, rotation, translation. A continuation of this has been investigated which will allow images to be recognized audibly. In this paper, a general method for converting 2D spatial patterns into pattern-specific sound patterns will be discussed, along with some background information on PCNNs, and projections for his image-to-sound conversion.

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Phillippia Simmons, H. John Caulfield, John L. Johnson, Marius P. Schamschula, Frank T. Allen, and Jason M. Kinser "Hearing shapes: auditory recognition of two-dimensional spatial patterns", Proc. SPIE 2824, Adaptive Computing: Mathematical and Physical Methods for Complex Environments, (11 November 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.258121

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