Title
Recursive nearest neighbor search in a sparse and multiscale domain for comparing audio signals
Abstract
We investigate recursive nearest neighbor search in a sparse domain at the scale of audio signals. Essentially, to approximate the cosine distance between the signals we make pairwise comparisons between the elements of localized sparse models built from large and redundant multiscale dictionaries of time–frequency atoms. Theoretically, error bounds on these approximations provide efficient means for quickly reducing the search space to the nearest neighborhood of a given data; but we demonstrate here that the best bound defined thus far involving a probabilistic assumption does not provide a practical approach for comparing audio signals with respect to this distance measure. Our experiments show, however, that regardless of these non-discriminative bounds, we only need to make a few atom pair comparisons to reveal, e.g., the origin of an excerpted signal, or melodies with similar time–frequency structures.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1016/j.sigpro.2011.03.002
Signal Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Multiscale decomposition,Sparse approximation,Time—frequency dictionary,Audio similarity
Audio signal,Pairwise comparison,Pattern recognition,Best bin first,Cosine Distance,Sparse approximation,Artificial intelligence,Probabilistic logic,Mathematics,Nearest neighbor search,Recursion
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
91
12
0165-1684
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
31
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bob L. Sturm124129.88
L. Daudet267262.06