Authors:
Sergio Cavaliere
and
Carmine Colucci
Affiliation:
Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Italy
Keyword(s):
Multimedia Databases, Audio Browsing.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Multimedia
;
Multimedia Databases, Indexing, Recognition and Retrieval
;
Multimedia Systems and Applications
;
Telecommunications
Abstract:
In this paper we present a toolbox aimed to search for audio files on the Internet, in a Local Area Network or in a single computer. Search is finalized both to analyze the collected files and to populate a multimedia archive for further use or analysis. The related tools to interface to a multimedia Data Base and analyze files is also provided. The toolbox is intended to be open in the sense that any user may customize it at will adding proprietary tools and methods. It is freely distributed and also open to contributions. The goal has been achieved building a Matlab Toolbox; this, as is well known, results in an open environment that anybody may customize at will. Research in the field of music and sound browsing analysis and classification is a large and open field in which a large amount of different solutions have been proposed in the literature. Deciding which sound parameters are suited to a kind of search or classification is still an open problem: we are therefore providing
an open environment where anybody may customize at will tools and methods, an environment which, as a plus respect to other tools in the literature, starts from the very first stage of the process, searching and browsing directly from the Internet. Our work goes in this direction and proposes an open environment made of open tools for the purpose. The language used allows also, as a further benefit, the advantage of straightforward prototyping of new tools. Interested researchers are kindly invited to email the authors for the distribution of the toolbox.
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