Title
Synchronizing multimodal recordings using audio-to-audio alignment
Abstract
Research on the interaction between movement and music often involves analysis of multi-track audio, video streams and sensor data. To facilitate such research a framework is presented here that allows synchronization of multimodal data. A low cost approach is proposed to synchronize streams by embedding ambient audio into each data-stream. This effectively reduces the synchronization problem to audio-to-audio alignment. As a part of the framework a robust, computationally efficient audio-to-audio alignment algorithm is presented for reliable synchronization of embedded audio streams of varying quality. The algorithm uses audio fingerprinting techniques to measure offsets. It also identifies drift and dropped samples, which makes it possible to find a synchronization solution under such circumstances as well. The framework is evaluated with synthetic signals and a case study, showing millisecond accurate synchronization.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/s12193-015-0196-1
J. Multimodal User Interfaces
Keywords
Field
DocType
Multimodal data synchronization,Audio fingerprinting,Audio-to-audio-alignment,Music performance research,Digital signal processing
Digital signal processing,Synchronization,Embedding,Computer science,Synchronizing,Data synchronization,Real-time computing,Millisecond,Frame synchronization (video),Multimedia
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
9
3
1783-7677
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.34
13
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Joren Six1194.72
Marc Leman26711.96