AES Budapest 2012
Workshop W14
Sunday, April 29, 09:00 — 10:00 (Room: Brahms)
W14 - Semantic Audio Analysis in the Real World
Chair:
Andrew Mason, BBC R&D - London, UK
Panelists:
Andy Hill, I Like Music - London, UK
Mark Sandler, Queen Mary University of London - London, UK
Nigel Smith, BBC Audio and Music Interactive - London, UK
Christian Uhle, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS - Erlangen, Germany
Abstract:
Semantic audio analysis presents many opportunities for research, and a huge amount of academic effort is expended. Naturally, a significant proportion of the effort is directed toward solving problems of interest to those doing the research. As a result there is a perception that many of the emergent applications are of limited commercial interest: a musicologist might be interested in minutiae of a composer's style, or in creating a play-list from a collection of 10,000 MP3 files. However, in the wider world there are other potential users: archivists with hundreds of thousands of hours of material to manage, and huge value to be realized from their archives; program makers searching for sound bites; and so on. This workshop aims to present some industry needs and to seek out new opportunities for developments in semantic audio analysis.
