Analysis of environmental sounds as indexical signs in film Moncrieff, Simon, Dorai, Chitra and Venkatesh, Svetha 2001, Analysis of environmental sounds as indexical signs in film, in Advances in multimedia information processing - PCM 2001 : second IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Germany, pp. 538-545, doi: 10.1007/3-540-45453-5_69. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Analysis of environmental sounds as indexical signs in film Author(s) Moncrieff, Simon Dorai, Chitra Venkatesh, Svetha orcid.org/0000-0001-8675-6631 Conference name IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (2nd : 2001 : Beijing, China) Conference location Beijing, China Conference dates 24-26 Oct. 2001 Title of proceedings Advances in multimedia information processing - PCM 2001 : second IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia proceedings Editor(s) Shum, Heung-Yeung Liao, Mark Chang, Shih-Fu Publication date 2001 Conference series IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia Start page 538 End page 545 Total pages 8 Publisher Springer Place of publication Berlin, Germany Keyword(s) environmental sounds movie audio tracks indexical semiotic use Summary In this paper, we investigate the problem of classifying a subset of environmental sounds in movie audio tracks that indicate specific indexical semiotic use. These environmental sounds are used to signify and enhance events occurring in film scenes. We propose a classification system for detecting the presence of violence and car chase scenes in film by classifying ten various environmental sounds that form the constituent audio events of these scenes using a number of old and new audio features. Experiments with our classification system on pure test sounds resulted in a correct event classification rate of 88.9%. We also present the results of the classifier on the mixed audio tracks of several scenes taken from The Mummy and Lethal Weapon 2. The classification of sound events is the first step towards determining the presence of the complex sound scenes within film audio and describing the thematic content of the scenes. ISBN 3540426809 Language eng DOI 10.1007/3-540-45453-5_69 Field of Research 089999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 970108 Expanding Knowledge in the Information and Computing Sciences HERDC Research category E1.1 Full written paper - refereed Copyright notice ©2001, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30044878 Document type: Conference Paper Collections: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment School of Information Technology Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Tue, 01 May 2012, 11:03:59 EST Wed, 09 May 2012, 15:08:13 EST Wed, 09 May 2012, 15:11:27 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 505 Abstract Views, 1 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Tue, 01 May 2012, 11:03:59 EST

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