Hyoung-Gook Kim & Nicolas Moreau 
MPEG-7 Audio and Beyond [PDF ebook] 
Audio Content Indexing and Retrieval

Advances in technology, such as MP3 players, the Internet and DVDs,
have led to the production, storage and distribution of a wealth of
audio signals, including speech, music and more general sound
signals and their combinations. MPEG-7 audio tools were created to
enable the navigation of this data, by providing an established
framework for effective multimedia management. MPEG-7 Audio and
Beyond: Audio Content Indexing and Retrieval is a unique
insight into the technology, covering the following topics:

* the fundamentals of MPEG-7 audio, principally low-level
descriptors and sound classification and similarity;

* spoken content description, and timbre, melody and tempo music
description tools;

* existing MPEG-7 applications and those currently being
developed;

* examples of audio technology beyond the scope of MPEG-7.

Essential reading for practising electronic and communications
engineers designing and implementing MPEG-7 compliant systems, this
book will also be a useful reference for researchers and graduate
students working with multimedia database technology.

Over de auteur

Hyoung-Gook Kim, Researcher of the MPEG-7 Audio Project at
the Communication Systems Group, Technical University of Berlin,
Communication Systems Group, Sekr. EN 1, Einsteinufer 17, D-10587
Berlin

Nicolas Moreau, Researcher of the MPEG-7 Audio Project at
the Communication Systems Group, Technical University of Berlin,
Communication Systems Group, Sekr. EN 1, Einsteinufer 17, D-10587
Berlin

Thomas Sikora, Professor and head of the Communication
Systems Group, Technical University of Berlin, Communication
Systems Group, Sekr. EN 1, Einsteinufer 17, D-10587 Berlin