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Morphological Sound Description: Computational Model and Usability Evaluation

Authors: Ricard, Julien; Herrera, Perfecto

AES Convention 116 · Paper 6012 · May 2004

Abstract

Sound samples metadata are usually limited to a source label and several related textual labels. In the context of sound retrieval this makes the retrieval of sounds having no identifiable source (?abstract sounds?) a hard task. We propose a description framework focusing on intrinsic perceptual sound qualities, based on Schaeffer?s research on sound objects, which could be used to represent and retrieve abstract sounds and to refine traditional search by source for non-abstract sounds. We show that some perceptual labels can be automatically extracted with good performance, avoiding the time-consuming manual labelling task, and that the resulting representation is evaluated as useful and usable by a pool of users.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 116
AES Convention
116
Paper number
6012
Publication date
May 6, 2004
Session subject
Audio Archiving, Storage, and Restoration: Content Management
Affiliation
IUA-MTG, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper