MPEG-7 Audio and Beyond: Audio Content Indexing and Retrieval - Hardcover

Kim, Hyoung-Gook; Moreau, Nicolas; Sikora, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 047009334X ISBN 13: 9780470093344

Publisher: Wiley, 2005

Synopsis

Advances in technology, such as MP3 players, the Internet and DVDs, have led to the production, storage and distribution of a wealth of audio signals, including speech, music and more general sound signals and their combinations. MPEG-7 audio tools were created to enable the navigation of this data, by providing an established framework for effective multimedia management. MPEG-7 Audio and Beyond: Audio Content Indexing and Retrieval is a unique insight into the technology, covering the following topics:

• the fundamentals of MPEG-7 audio, principally low-level descriptors and sound classification and similarity;
• spoken content description, and timbre, melody and tempo music description tools;
• existing MPEG-7 applications and those currently being developed;
• examples of audio technology beyond the scope of MPEG-7.

Essential reading for practising electronic and communications engineers designing and implementing MPEG-7 compliant systems, this book will also be a useful reference for researchers and graduate students working with multimedia database technology.

About this title

About the Author

Hyoung-Gook Kim, Researcher of the MPEG-7 Audio Project at the Communication Systems Group, Technical University of Berlin, Communication Systems Group, Sekr. EN 1, Einsteinufer 17, D-10587 Berlin

Nicolas Moreau, Researcher of the MPEG-7 Audio Project at the Communication Systems Group, Technical University of Berlin, Communication Systems Group, Sekr. EN 1, Einsteinufer 17, D-10587 Berlin

Thomas Sikora, Professor and head of the Communication Systems Group, Technical University of Berlin, Communication Systems Group, Sekr. EN 1, Einsteinufer 17, D-10587 Berlin

• the fundamentals of MPEG-7 audio, principally low-level descriptors and sound classification and similarity;

• spoken content description, and timbre, melody and tempo music description tools;

• existing MPEG-7 applications and those currently being developed;

• examples of audio technology beyond the scope of MPEG-7.

Essential reading for practising electronic and communications engineers designing and implementing MPEG-7 compliant systems, this book will also be a useful reference for researchers and graduate students working with multimedia database technology.

• the fundamentals of MPEG-7 audio, principally low-level descriptors and sound classification and similarity;

• spoken content description, and timbre, melody and tempo music description tools;

• existing MPEG-7 applications and those currently being developed;

• examples of audio technology beyond the scope of MPEG-7.

Essential reading for practising electronic and communications engineers designing and implementing MPEG-7 compliant systems, this book will also be a useful reference for researchers and graduate students working with multimedia database technology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 047009334X
• ISBN 13: 9780470093344
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304