Automatic audio tagging using covariate shift adaptation

Gordon Wichern, Makoto Yamada, Harvey Thornburg, Masashi Sugiyama, Andreas Spanias

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3 Scopus citations

Abstract

Automatically annotating or tagging unlabeled audio files has several applications, such as database organization and recommender systems. We are interested in the case where the system is trained using clean high-quality audio files, butmost of the files that need to be automatically tagged during the test phase are heavily compressed and noisy, for instance if they were captured on a mobile device. In this situation we assume the audio files follow a covariate shift model in the acoustic feature space, i.e., the feature distributions are different in the training and test phases, but the conditional distribution of labels given features remains unchanged. Our method uses a specially designed audio similarity measure as input to a set of weighted logistic regressors, which attempt to alleviate the influence of covariate shift. Results on a freely available database of sound files contributed and labeled by non-expert users, demonstrate effective automatic tagging performance.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2010 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2010 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages253-256
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)9781424442966
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Event2010 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2010 - Dallas, TX, United States
Duration: Mar 14 2010Mar 19 2010

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Other

Other2010 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2010
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityDallas, TX
Period3/14/103/19/10

Keywords

  • Acoustic signal analysis
  • Database query processing
  • Importance
  • KLIEP

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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