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Ecological acoustics perspective for content-based retrieval of environmental sounds

Title Ecological acoustics perspective for content-based retrieval of environmental sounds
Publication Type Journal Article
Year of Publication 2010
Authors Roma, G. , Janer J. , Kersten S. , Schirosa M. , Herrera P. , & Serra X.
Journal Title EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing
Volume 2010
Pages 960863
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.
preprint/postprint document http://hdl.handle.net/10230/34635
Final publication http://doi.org/10.1155/2010/960863