Auditory recognition of surface texture with various scattering coefficients

• Published in: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Vol. 141; no. 5; p. 3452
• Main Authors: Rychtarikova, Monika, Zelem, Lukaš, Kritly, Leopold, Garcia, David P., Chmelík, Vojtech, Glorieux, Christ
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.05.2017

Human echolocation is a known ability of people to grasp the information about the surrounding environment from purely acoustic information. However, the extent to what normal sighted and blind people can auditorily recognize the surface texture, such as its roughness or other different sound scatte...