Investigation of Objective Parameters of Vehicle Door Closing Transient Sound Quality Based on Complex Analytic Wavelet Method

Abstract

In view of the deficiency of psychoacoustic objective parameters in prediction of nonstationary vehicle sound quality, we propose an innovative method to extract the transient acoustic time-frequency characteristic parameters as objective parameters to evaluate the quality of vehicle door closing sound based on complex analytic wavelet. The signal is decomposed by empirical mode decomposition (EMD) and the decomposed intrinsic mode function (IMF) components are analyzed by the spectrum analysis. On the basis of human auditory frequency range, some IMF components are eliminated and the main frequency bands of the effective IMF components are extracted as the analytical frequency bands of the complex analytic wavelet. The center frequencies of the complex analytic wavelet analysis are extracted according to the critical bands, thereby determining wavelet parameters (band width, center frequency, scale factor, etc.,). To highlight the influence of high-frequency components and balance the data discrepancy, we extract the energy ratio coefficient as the objective parameter after weighting the time-frequency components. By comparing with the extracted objective parameters of traditional psychoacoustics, the correlation between the subjective evaluation results and the energy ratio coefficients is analyzed. The results demonstrate that the energy ratio coefficients extracted based on the complex analytic wavelet transform have a greater correlation with subjective evaluation results than the traditional psychoacoustic objective parameters. In addition, the frequency components of 1720 Hz∼3150 Hz have a strong negative correlation with the vehicle door closing sound quality.