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Browsing Sound and Music Libraries by Similarity

Authors: Dupont, Stéphane; Frisson, Christian; Siebert, Xavier; Tardieu, Damien

AES Convention 128 · Paper 8112 · May 2010

Abstract

This paper presents a prototype tool for browsing through multimedia libraries using content-based multimedia information retrieval techniques. It is composed of several groups of components for multimedia analysis, data mining, interactive visualization, as well as connection with external hardware controllers. The musical application of this tool uses descriptors of timbre, harmony, as well as rhythm and two different approaches for exploring/browsing content. First, a dynamic data mining allows the user to group sounds into clusters according to those different criteria, whose importance can be weighted interactively. In a second mode, sounds that are similar to a query are returned to the user, and can be used to further proceed with the search. This approach also borrows from multi-criteria optimization concept to return a relevant list of similar sounds.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 128
AES Convention
128
Paper number
8112
Publication date
May 6, 2010
Session subject
Audio Content Management—Audio Information Retrieval
Affiliation
Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; Université de Mons, Mons, Belgium (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper