Content-based retrieval of music and audio

Jonathan T. Foote

doi:10.1117/12.290336

6 October 1997 Content-based retrieval of music and audio

Jonathan T. Foote

Proceedings Volume 3229, Multimedia Storage and Archiving Systems II; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.290336
Event: Voice, Video, and Data Communications, 1997, Dallas, TX, United States

Abstract

Though many systems exist for content-based retrieval of images, little work has been done on the audio portion of the multimedia stream. This paper presents a system to retrieve audio documents y acoustic similarity. The similarity measure is based on statistics derived from a supervised vector quantizer, rather than matching simple pitch or spectral characteristics. The system is thus able to learn distinguishing audio features while ignoring unimportant variation. Both theoretical and experimental results are presented, including quantitative measures of retrieval performance. Retrieval was tested on a corpus of simple sounds as well as a corpus of musical excerpts. The system is purely data-driven and does not depend on particular audio characteristics. Given a suitable parameterization, this method may thus be applicable to image retrieval as well.

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Jonathan T. Foote "Content-based retrieval of music and audio", Proc. SPIE 3229, Multimedia Storage and Archiving Systems II, (6 October 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.290336

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