• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.10-14
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• 2006

To effectively manage a very large amount of music data, we need an indexing technique based on audio features. But the indexing techniques for audiofeatures have not been studied completely. In this paper, we describe a content-based music information retrieval technique for audio features using the TIP-indexing file. In addition, we develop and experiment the TIP-indexing files using various blocking factors to present performance comparisons for effective indexing. Experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed techniques.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.509-512
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• 2006

In a real environment, sound recordings are commonly distorted by channel and background noise, and the performance of audio identification is mainly degraded by them. Recently, Philips introduced a robust and efficient audio fingerprinting scheme applying a differential (high-pass filtering) to the frequency-time sequence of the perceptual filter-bank energies. In practice, however, the robustness of the audio fingerprinting scheme is still important in a real environment. In this letter, we introduce alternatives to the frequency-temporal filtering combination for an extension method of Philips' audio fingerprinting scheme to achieve robustness to channel and background noise under the conditions of a real situation. Our experimental results show that the proposed filtering combination improves noise robustness in audio identification.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.01a
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• pp.390-395
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• 2009

The robustness of audio fingerprinting system in a noisy environment is a principal challenge in the area of content-based audio retrieval. The selected feature for the audio fingerprints must be robust in a noisy environment and the computational complexity of the searching algorithm must be low enough to be executed in real-time. The audio fingerprint proposed by Philips uses expanded hash table lookup to compensate errors introduced by noise. The expanded hash table lookup increases the searching complexity by a factor of 33 times the degree of expansion defined by the hamming distance. We propose a new method to improve noise robustness of audio fingerprinting in noise environment using predominant pitch which reduces the bit error of created hash values. The sub-fingerprint of our approach method is computed in each time frames of audio. The time frame is transformed into the frequency domain using FFT. The obtained audio spectrum is divided into 33 critical bands. Finally, the 32-bit hash value is computed by difference of each bands of energy. And only store bits near predominant pitch. Predominant pitches are extracted in each time frames of audio. The extraction process consists of harmonic enhancement, harmonic summation and selecting a band among critical bands.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.461-468
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• 2000

Amounts of audio data used in several computer application have necessitated the development of audio database systems with newer features such as content-based queries and similarity searches to manage and use such data. Fast and accurate retrievals for content-based queries are crucial for such systems to be useful. Efficient content-based indexing and similarity searching schemes are keys to providing fast and relevant data retrievals. This paper present a method for indexing of Korean Traditional Music audio data based on wavelets. Also this paper present possibility of wavelet based audio indexing.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.2-7
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• 2004

In this paper, we proposed the content-based music information retrieval technique using some MPEG-7 low-level descriptors. Especially, pitch information and timbral features can be applied in music genre classification, music retrieval, or QBH(Query By Humming) because these can be modeling the stochasticpattern or timbral information of music signal. In this work, we restricted the music domain as O.S.T of movie or soap opera to apply broadcasting system. That is, the user can retrievalthe information of the unknown music using only an audio clip with a few seconds extracted from video content when background music sound greeted user's ear. We proposed the audio feature set organized by MPEG-7 descriptors and distance function by vector distance or ratio computation. Thus, we observed that the feature set organized by pitch information is superior to timbral spectral feature set and IFCR(Intra-Feature Component Ratio) is better than ED(Euclidean Distance) as a vector distance function. To evaluate music recognition, k-NN is used as a classifier

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.12
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• pp.224-231
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• 2013

Defining the concept of prominent audio content as the most informative audio content from the users' perspective within a given unstructured audio segment, we propose a simple but robust intensity-based attack/release pattern features to detect the prominent audio content. We also propose a web-based annotation procedure to retrieve users' subjective perception and annotated 18 hours of video clips across various genres, such as cartoon, movie, news, etc. The experiments with a linear classification method whose models are trained for speech, music, and sound effect demonstrate promising - but varying across the genres of programs - results (e.g., 86.7% weighted accuracy for speech-oriented talk shows and 49.3% weighted accuracy for {action movies}).

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.02a
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• pp.287-292
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• 2007

최근 다양한 분야에서(웹 포털, 유료 음원서비스 등) 디지털 오디오의 검색이 사용되고 있다. 이러한 분야에서 디지털 오디오의 검색은 디지털 오디오 데이터가 가지고 있는 자체 메타 정보를 이용하여 이루어진다. 하지만 메타 정보가 다르게 작성 되었거나 작성되지 않은 경우 정확한 검색은 어렵다. 요즘 이러한 문제의 보완 방안으로 내용기반 정보 검색 기법을 이용한 검색이 이루어지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 내용 기반 디지털 오디오 검색 방법에 대해 논하고자 한다. 내용기반으로 디지털 오디오를 검색하기 위해 음성 인식 문야에서 유사도 측정에 사용하는 Dynamic Time Warping 기법을 활용하여 디지털 오디오 간의 유사도 측정을 하였다. 제안된 유사도 측정을 통한 내용기반 디지털 오디오검색 방법의 검증을 위해 같은 장르에서 무작위 추출된 100곡에서 시행한 90번의 검색은 모두 성공했다. 검색에 사용된 90개의 디지털 오디오는 10개의 디지털 오디오를 압축방식과 비트율을 다르게 조합하여 만들었다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.10-18
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• 1998

Video information is an important component of multimedia system such as Digital Library. World-Wide Web(WWW) and Video-On-Demand(VOD) service system. It can support various types of information because of including audio-visual, spatial-temporal and semantics information. In addition, it requires the ability of retrieving the specific scene of video instead of entire retrieval of video document. Therefore, so as to support a variety of retrieval, this paper models metadata using video document structure information that consists of hierarchical structure, and designs database schema that can manipulate video document.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.12 no.11
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• pp.1572-1580
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• 2009

Combing through entire video files for the purpose of recognizing and retrieving matching movies requires much time and memory space. Instead, most current similar movie-matching methods choose to analyze only a part of each movie's video-image information. Yet, these methods still share a critical problem of erroneously recognizing as being different matching videos that have been altered only in resolution or converted merely with a different codecs. This paper proposes an audio-information-based search algorithm by which similar movies can be identified. The proposed method prepares and searches through a database of movie's spectral peak information that remains relatively steady even with changes in the bit-rate, codecs, or sample-rate. The method showed a 92.1% search success rate, given a set of 1,000 video files whose audio-bit-rate had been altered or were purposefully written in a different codec.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.453-463
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• 2013

In this paper, we present an effective method and a system for the music summarization which automatically extract the chorus portion of a piece of music. A music summary technology is very useful for browsing a song or generating a sample music for an online music service. To develop the solution, conventional automatic music summarization methods use a 2-dimensional similarity matrix, statistical models, or clustering techniques. But our proposed method extracts the music summary by calculating BER(Bit Error Rate) between audio fingerprint blocks which are extracted from a song. But we could directly use an enormous audio fingerprint database which was already saved for a music retrieval solution. This shows the possibility of developing a various of new algorithms and solutions using the audio fingerprint database. In addition, experiments show that the proposed method captures the chorus of a song more effectively than a conventional method.