Identifying audio clips with RARE

  • Authors:
  • Chris J. C. Burges;John C. Platt;Jonathan Goldstein

  • Affiliations:
  • Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA;Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA;Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA

  • Venue:
  • MULTIMEDIA '03 Proceedings of the eleventh ACM international conference on Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe RARE (Robust Audio Recognition Engine): a system for identifying audio streams and files. RARE can be used in a variety of applications: from enhancing the consumer listening experience to cleaning large audio databases. RARE was designed with two key qualities in mind: robustness to distortion of the audio, and lookup speed. RARE identifies audio clips in a stream against a database of 1/4 million songs in real time using approximately 10% CPU on an 850 MHz P3, and with a measured false positive rate of 1.5x10-8 per clip, per database entry, at a false negative rate of 0.2% per clip. We demo RARE in real-time on a stream and on distorted files.