Acoustic Scene Classification: Classifying environments from the sounds they produce

IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 16-34

  Barchiesi, Daniele ^a   Giannoulis, D Dimitrios ^a   Stowell, Dan ^a   Plumbley, Mark D ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

DATA CHALLENGES; DATA SET; HISTORICAL REVIEW; PERFORMANCE METRICS; SCENE CLASSIFICATION; STATE OF THE ART; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE TEST;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

EID: 85032751587     PISSN: 10535888     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MSP.2014.2326181     Document Type: Article

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