Probabilistic Model Based Similarity Measures for Audio Query-by-Example
- 1 October 2007
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- p. 82-85
Abstract
This paper proposes measures for estimating the similarity of two audio signals, the objective being in query-by-example. Both signals are first represented using a set of features calculated in short intervals, and then probabilistic models are estimated for the feature distributions. Gaussian mixture models and hidden Markov models are tested in this study. The similarity of the signals is measured by the congruence between the feature distributions or by a cross-likelihood ratio test. We calculate the Kullback-Leibler divergence between the distributions by sampling the distributions at the points of the observations vectors. The cross-likelihood ratio test is evaluated using the likelihood of the first signal being generated by the model of the second signal, and vice versa. Simulations were conducted to test the accuracy of the proposed methods on query-by-example of audio. On a database consisting of of speech, music, and environmental sounds the proposed methods enable better retrieval accuracy than the existing methods.Keywords
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