TY - GEN
T1 - Objective characterization of audio signal quality
T2 - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2017
AU - Fourer, Dominique
AU - Peeters, Geoffroy
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/6/16
Y1 - 2017/6/16
N2 - In this paper, we propose a set of audio features to describe the quality of an audio signal. Audio quality is here considered as being modified by the chain of processes/effects applied to the individual instrument tracks to obtain the final mix of a musical piece. Thus, the quality also depends on the mastering processes applied to the final mix or the signal degradation caused by MP3 compression. To evaluate our proposal, we created a large set of artificial mixes and also used real-world studio mixes. Using unsupervised and supervised classification methods, we show that our proposed audio features can detect the processing chain. Since this processing chain applied in professional studio has evolved over the years, we use our audio features to directly predict the decade during which a music track was recorded.
AB - In this paper, we propose a set of audio features to describe the quality of an audio signal. Audio quality is here considered as being modified by the chain of processes/effects applied to the individual instrument tracks to obtain the final mix of a musical piece. Thus, the quality also depends on the mastering processes applied to the final mix or the signal degradation caused by MP3 compression. To evaluate our proposal, we created a large set of artificial mixes and also used real-world studio mixes. Using unsupervised and supervised classification methods, we show that our proposed audio features can detect the processing chain. Since this processing chain applied in professional studio has evolved over the years, we use our audio features to directly predict the decade during which a music track was recorded.
KW - audio quality
KW - audio reverse-engineering
KW - database indexing
KW - music information retrieval
KW - music remixing
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85023750919
U2 - 10.1109/ICASSP.2017.7952248
DO - 10.1109/ICASSP.2017.7952248
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85023750919
T3 - ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
SP - 711
EP - 715
BT - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2017 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 5 March 2017 through 9 March 2017
ER -