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Frequency-Based Coloring of the Waveform Display to Facilitate Audio Editing and Retrieval

Authors: Rice, Stephen V.

AES Convention 119 · Paper 6530 · October 2005

Abstract

The audio waveform display provides the visual focus in audio-editing systems yet sounds are difficult to see in the display. Using a new technique, the display is colored to represent the frequency content to make sounds more visible. This requires extraction of frequency information from the audio signal and an appropriate mapping of this information to the color space. Ideally, the coloring is independent of recording level, and similar sounds are represented by similar colors. Audio-editing systems are enhanced by the improved user interface. Audio-retrieval systems can present colored waveform displays as visual “thumbnails” in a list of search results.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 119
AES Convention
119
Paper number
6530
Publication date
October 6, 2005
Session subject
Acoustics & Desktop Production
Affiliation
University of Mississippi (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper

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