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TAKANEN2013LSO - Model of the lateral superior olive

Program code:

function output = takanen2013lso(ipsilateral, contralateral, fs, fc)
%TAKANEN2013LSO Model of the lateral superior olive
%   Usage: output = takanen2013lso(ipsilateral, contralateral, fs, fc);
%
%   Input parameters:
%        ipsilateral   : The ipsilateral "where" stream output from the
%                        model of the periphery
%        contralateral : The contralateral "where" stream output from the
%                        model of the periphery
%        fs            : sampling rate
%        fc            : characteristic frequencies
%
%   Output parameters:
%        output : Spatial cues for separate narrow bandwidths
%
%   This function models the lateral superior olive (LSO) by processing the 
%   output of the periphery model with the following steps:
%
%   1) First-order lowpass filter is applied to both the ipsilateral and
%      contralateral sides, and the contralateral side is delayed
%
%   2) The output is saturated at a certain dB level and limited
%      signals.
%
%   3) Weighted moving average filters with a short and longer time
%      constant are applied, the latter only below 1 kHz in order to slow
%      the response
%
%   See also: takanen2013, takanen2013periphery, weightedaveragefilter
%
%   References: takanen2013a pulkki2009

%   AUTHOR: Marko Takanen, Olli Santala, Ville Pulkki
%
%   COPYRIGHT (C) 2013 Aalto University
%                      School of Electrical Engineering
%                      Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics
%                      Espoo, Finland

%% ------ The contralateral ear input is delayed by 0.2 ms ----------------
contradelay = round(0.0002*fs);
contralateral = [zeros(contradelay,size(contralateral,2));...
    contralateral(1:size(contralateral,1)-contradelay,:)];

%% ------ First-order lowpass filter with a time constant of 0.1 ms -------
tau = 0.0001; % seconds
B = 1-exp(-1/(fs*tau));
A = [1 -exp(-1/(fs*tau))];
ipsilateral = filter(B,A,ipsilateral);
contralateral = filter(B,A,contralateral);

%% ------ Level difference computation and limitation ---------------------
% The output is saturated at ILD of 18 dB
output = (10^(-18/20))*((ipsilateral)./(contralateral+1e-20));
% Limitation
output= output.*(output>0);
output(output>1) = 1;

%% ------ Spreading of short peaks ----------------------------------------
windowfunct = hann(round(0.001*fs));
windowfunct = windowfunct./sum(windowfunct);
for i=1:size(contralateral,2)
    output(:,i) = conv(output(:,i),windowfunct,'same');
end

%% ------ Weighted-moving average with a time constant of 4 ms ----------------
output = weightedaveragefilter(output,ipsilateral,fs,0.004);
% tau = 0.004; 
% B = 1-exp(-1/(tau*fs));A = [1 -exp(-1/(tau*fs))];
% output = (filter(B,A,(ipsilateral.^2).*output))./(filter(B,A,ipsilateral.^2)+1e-20);

%% ------ Self-weighted moving average ----------------
% Slow down the response above 1 kHz with a time constant of 50 ms
limit = find(fc<1000,1,'last');
output(:,1:limit) = weightedaveragefilter(output(:,1:limit),output(:,1:limit),fs,0.05);