SoundButton: Design of a Low Power Wearable Audio Classification System

  • Authors:
  • Mathias Stäger;Paul Lukowicz;Niroshan Perera;Thomas von Büren;Gerhard Tröster;Thad Starner

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ISWC '03 Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The paper deals with the design of a sound recognitionsystem focused on an ultra low power hardware implementationin a button like miniature form factor. We present theresults of the first design phase focused on selection andexperimental evaluation of sound classes and algorithmssuitable for low power realization. We also present theVHDL model of the hardware showing that our method canbe implemented with minimal resources. Our approach isbased on spectrum analysis to distinguish between a subsetof sound sources with a clear audio signature. It alsouses intensity analysis from microphones placed at differentlocations to correlate the sounds with user activity.