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Engineering Brief

Automatic Segmentation of Concert Recordings via a Heuristic Approach

Authors: Ayers, Andrew

AES Convention 134 · Paper 80 · May 2013

Abstract

In the age of digital recordings, many institutions maintain large databases of concert recordings. While segmentation of these concert recordings for mastering and production is a time-consuming task for humans, this paper presents a novel heuristic algorithm to automate that process. Building on other work in audio segmentation, technique from the music informatics community is used to detect events, classify them, and segment entire concert recordings unsupervised. A brief review of previous work and the methodology used in this approach are provided, as well as the results obtained on a corpus of sixteen concerts.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 134
AES Convention
134
Paper number
80
Publication date
May 6, 2013
Affiliation
University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Engineering Brief