Abstract

In the field of psychoacoustic analysis the goal is to construct a transformation that will map a time waveform into a domain that best captures the response of a human perceiving sound. A key element of such transformations is the mapping between the sound intensity in decibels and its actual perceived loudness. A number of different loudness models exist to achieve this mapping. This paper examines implementation strategies for some of the more wellknown models in the Matlab software environment.