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Environmental Sound Synthesis, Processing, and Retrieval

  1. In this paper we present a method to search for environmental sounds in large unstructured databases of user-submitted audio, using a general sound events taxonomy from ecological acoustics. We discuss the use...

    Authors: Gerard Roma, Jordi Janer, Stefan Kersten, Mattia Schirosa, Perfecto Herrera and Xavier Serra
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing 2010 2010:960863
  2. Organizing a database of user-contributed environmental sound recordings allows sound files to be linked not only by the semantic tags and labels applied to them, but also to other sounds with similar acoustic...

    Authors: Gordon Wichern, Brandon Mechtley, Alex Fink, Harvey Thornburg and Andreas Spanias
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing 2010 2010:192363
  3. Humans represent sounds to others and receive information about sounds from others using onomatopoeia. Such representation is useful for obtaining and reporting the acoustic features and impressions of actual ...

    Authors: Masayuki Takada, Nozomu Fujisawa, Fumino Obata and Shin-ichiro Iwamiya
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing 2010 2010:674248
  4. Frequency-domain blind source separation (BSS) performs poorly in high reverberation because the independence assumption collapses at each frequency bins when the number of bins increases. To improve the separ...

    Authors: Lin Wang, Heping Ding and Fuliang Yin
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing 2010 2010:797962
  5. Theoretical and applied environmental sounds research is gaining prominence but progress has been hampered by the lack of a comprehensive, high quality, accessible database of environmental sounds. An ongoing ...

    Authors: Brian Gygi and Valeriy Shafiro
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing 2010 2010:654914