Human echolocation: waveform analysis of tongue clicks

Michail Antoniou; Mikhail Cherniakov; Graeme Smith; Xinyu Zhang; Galen Reich; Chris Baker; Lore Thaler; Daniel Kish

doi:10.1049/el.2017.0454

Human echolocation: waveform analysis of tongue clicks

Michail Antoniou, Mikhail Cherniakov, Graeme Smith, Xinyu Zhang, Galen Reich, Chris Baker, Lore Thaler, Daniel Kish

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Abstract

Some blind individuals have the ability to detect and classify objects in
complex scenes by using echolocation based on "tongue clicks". In this
paper, we present a waveform analysis of the tongue clicks collected
from three blind individuals who use tongue-click based echolocation on
a daily basis. It is found that the tongue clicks are wideband signals and
that that the spectrum of clicks varies within and between individuals.
However, by using the wideband ambiguity function, we find that
all of the clicks from three different individuals share some common
characteristics.

Original language	English
Journal	Electronics Letters
Early online date	7 Mar 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1049/el.2017.0454
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 7 Mar 2017

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