Content-based audio classification and segmentation by using support vector machines

Lie Lu

doi:10.1007/s00530-002-0065-0

Content-based audio classification and segmentation by using support vector machines

2003-04-01

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DOI：10.1007/s00530-002-0065-0

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Content-based audio classification and segmentation is a basis for further audio/video analysis. In this paper, we present our work on audio segmentation and classification which employs support vector machines (SVMs). Five audio classes are considered in this paper: silence, music, background sound, pure speech, and non-pure speech which includes speech over music and speech over noise. A sound stream is segmented by classifying each sub-segment into one of these five classes. We have evaluated the performance of SVM on different audio type-pairs classification with testing unit of different-length and compared the performance of SVM, K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), and Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM). We also evaluated the effectiveness of some new proposed features. Experiments on a database composed of about 4-hour audio data show that the proposed classifier is very efficient on audio classification and segmentation. It also shows the accuracy of the SVM-based method is much better than the method based on KNN and GMM.

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audio content analysis

audio classification and segmentation

support vector machines

Content-based audio classification and segmentation by using support vector machines

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