Image feature representation of the subband power distribution for robust sound event classification

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 367-377

  Dennis, Jonathan ^a   Tran, Huy Dat ^a   Chng, Eng Siong ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

missing feature theory; Sound event classification; spectrogram; subband power distribution (SPD)

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SURVEILLANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL SOUNDS; FEATURE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE FEATURE REPRESENTATION; IMAGE FEATURES; MISSING FEATURE THEORIES; NEAREST NEIGHBOR CLASSIFIER; NOISE CONDITIONS; NONSTATIONARY NOISE; POWER DISTRIBUTIONS; SOUND EVENT CLASSIFICATION; SPECTRAL POWER DISTRIBUTION; SPECTROGRAMS; SUBBANDS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; AUDITION; IMAGE PROCESSING; SPECTROGRAPHS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

AUDIO ACOUSTICS;

EID: 84871391219     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2012.2226160     Document Type: Article

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