Name That Room: Room Identification Using Acoustic Features in a Recording

TitleName That Room: Room Identification Using Acoustic Features in a Recording
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2012
AuthorsPeters, N., Lei H., & Friedland G.
Page(s)841-844
Other Numbers3318
Abstract

This paper presents a system for identifying the room in an audio or video recording through the analysis of acoustical properties. The room identification system was tested using a corpus of 13440 reverberant audio samples. With no common content between the training and testing data, an accuracy of 61% for musical signals and 85% for speech signals was achieved. This approach could be applied in a variety of scenarios where knowledge about the acoustical environment is desired, such as location estimation, music recommendation, or emergency response systems.

Acknowledgment

This work was partially funded by the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Diesnst (DAAD) through a postdoctoral fellowship. Additional support was provided by Microsoft through award #024263, Intel through award #024894), matching U.C.Discovery funding (Award #DIG07-10227).

URLhttp://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/other/ICSI_NameThatRoom2012.pdf
Bibliographic Notes

Proceedings of 20th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2012), pp. 841-844, Nara, Japan

Abbreviated Authors

N. Peters, H. Lei, and G. Friedland

ICSI Research Group

Audio and Multimedia

ICSI Publication Type

Article in conference proceedings