Name
Abstract | ||
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Sound designers source sounds in massive collections, heavily tagged by themselves and sound librarians. For each query, once successive keywords attained a limit to filter down the results, hundreds of sounds are left to be reviewed. AudioMetro combines a new content-based information visualization technique with instant audio feedback to facilitate this part of their workflow. We show through user evaluations by known-item search in collections of textural sounds that a default grid layout ordered by filename unexpectedly outperforms content-based similarity layouts resulting from a recent dimension reduction technique (Student-t Stochastic Neighbor Embedding), even when complemented with content-based glyphs that emphasize local neighborhoods and cue perceptual features. We propose a solution borrowed from image browsing: a proximity grid, whose density we optimize for nearest neighborhood preservation among the closest cells. Not only does it remove overlap but we show through a subsequent user evaluation that it also helps to direct the search. We based our experiments on an open dataset (the OLPC sound library) for replicability. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2014 | 10.1145/2636879.2636880 | Audio Mostly Conference |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
sound effects,design,content-based similarity,experimentation,systems,evaluation/methodology,music information retrieval,graphical user interfaces,media browsers,visual variables,known-item search | Glyph,Music information retrieval,Dimensionality reduction,Embedding,Information visualization,Computer science,Audio feedback,Multimedia,Workflow,Grid | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
2 | 0.39 | 14 |
Authors | ||
6 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christian Frisson | 1 | 40 | 10.74 |
| Stéphane Dupont | 2 | 134 | 26.78 |
| Willy Yvart | 3 | 2 | 2.08 |
| Nicolas Riche | 4 | 11 | 1.64 |
| Xavier Siebert | 5 | 25 | 5.54 |
| Thierry Dutoit | 6 | 1006 | 123.84 |