Fuzzy Audio Similarity Measures Based on Spectrum Histograms and Fluctuation Patterns

  • Authors:
  • Klaas Bosteels;Etienne E. Kerre

  • Affiliations:
  • Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281 (S9), B-9000 Gent, Belgium;Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281 (S9), B-9000 Gent, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • MUE '07 Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Spectrum histograms and fluctuation patterns are rep- resentations of audio fragments. By comparing these rep- resentations, we can determine the similarity between the corresponding fragments. Traditionally, this is done using the Euclidian distance. We propose fuzzy similarity mea- sures as an alternative. First we introduce some well-known fuzzy similarity measures, together with certain properties that can be desirable or useful in practice. In particular, we present several forms of restrictability, which allow to re- duce the computation time in practical applications. Next, we show that fuzzy similarity measures can be used to com- pare spectrum histograms and fluctuation patterns. Finally, we describe some experimental observations for this fuzzy approach of constructing audio similarity measures.