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The Effect of Features on Clustering in Audio Surveillance

Authors: Vesa, Sampo

AES Conference: 30th International Conference: Intelligent Audio Environments · Paper 11 · March 2007

Abstract

The effect of the choice of features on unsupervised clustering in audio surveillance is investigated. The importance of individual features in a larger feature set is first analyzed by examining the component loadings in principal component analysis (PCA). The individual sound events are then assigned into clusters using the self-tuning spectral clustering and the classical K-means algorithms. A weighted version of the original set is used, where the weights have been optimized by a genetic algorithm (GA) for maximally error-free clustering. The weighted feature set expectedly outperforms the original feature set and its PCA-reduced version. Insight into the importance of individual features is also gained.

Details

Published in
AES Conference: 30th International Conference: Intelligent Audio Environments
Paper number
11
Publication date
March 6, 2007
Session subject
Intelligent Audio Environments
Affiliation
Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Conference Paper