Ecological Acoustics Perspective for Content-Based Retrieval of Environmental Sounds. (5th December 2010)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Roma, Gerard; Janer, Jordi; Kersten, Stefan; Schirosa, Mattia; Herrera, Perfecto; Serra, Xavier
• Other Names: Valle Andrea Academic Editor.
• Is Part Of: EURASIP journal on audio, speech, and music processing. Volume 2010(2010)
• Publication Date: 2010-12-05
• Subjects: Sound -- Recording and reproducing -- Digital techniques -- Periodicals; Computer sound processing -- Periodicals; Computer sound processing; Sound -- Recording and reproducing -- Digital techniques; Periodicals; Electronic journal; Electronic journals; 620.2
• DOI: 10.1155/2010/960863
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1687-4714

Abstract

Abstract : In this paper we present a method to search for environmental sounds in large unstructured databases of user-submitted audio, using a general sound events taxonomy from ecological acoustics. We discuss the use of Support Vector Machines to classify sound recordings according to the taxonomy and describe two use cases for the obtained classification models: a content-based web search interface for a large audio database and a method for segmenting field recordings to assist sound design.