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Analysis of environmental sounds as indexical signs in film
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posted on 2001-01-01, 00:00 authored by S Moncrieff, C Dorai, Svetha VenkateshSvetha VenkateshIn 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.
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IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (2nd : 2001 : Beijing, China)Pagination
538 - 545Publisher
SpringerLocation
Beijing, ChinaPlace of publication
Berlin, GermanyPublisher DOI
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2001-10-24End date
2001-10-26ISBN-10
3540426809Language
engPublication classification
E1.1 Full written paper - refereedCopyright notice
2001, Springer-Verlag Berlin HeidelbergEditor/Contributor(s)
H Shum, M Liao, S ChangTitle of proceedings
Advances in multimedia information processing - PCM 2001 : second IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia proceedingsUsage metrics
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