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MPEG-7 Audio and Beyond: Audio Content Indexing and Retrieval
Author(s): Hyoung-Gook Kim (Author), Nicolas Moreau (Author), Thomas Sikora (Author)
- Publisher: Wiley
- Publication Date: December 9, 2005
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 304 pages
- ISBN-10: 047009334X
- ISBN-13: 9780470093344
Book Description
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.
