This paper presents an environmental sound classification method that is noise-robust against sounds recorded by mobile devices, and presents evaluation of its performance. This method is specifically designed to recognize higher semantics of context from environmental sound. Conventionally, sound classifications have used acoustic features in the frequency domain extracted from sound data usin...

This paper is the continuation of previously published work in which we have been analysing different methods – traditionally used in speech recognition – for their suitability to be applied to Environmental Sound Recognition. While current research devotes much effort to speech and speaker recognition, Environmental Sound Recognition is an area where little research has been reported. Despite ...

This extended abstract describes Metopia, a research project in the early stages of progress, a wireless sensor network for urban spaces, to aquire a complex set of data from the environment for the purpose of making a sound composition. The programming language Pure Data is used to create a sound composition from the aquired data. This research project is using a real-world problem such as air...

Introduction Noise pollution has become an important problem in our society. Noise assessment regulations require the measurement and evaluation of noise. The basic equipment for this measurement is the noise monitoring systems (or NMS). The current generation of NMS consists of "dumb" systems that record noise level and, possibly, noise spectra, over programmed periods of time. The interpretat...

The problems of introducing unvironmcntal sound into the compositional process arc discussed, including its acoustic character, syntactic orgmization, contextuaIly based meaning,and resultant listening patterns. Gaps in traditional discipIinary approaches in dealing with environmental sound arc identified, and an acoustic communicational model is proposed as an interdisciplinary alternative. Th...

In this paper we provide normative data along multiple cognitive and affective variable dimensions for a set of 110 sounds, including living and manmade stimuli. Environmental sounds are being increasingly utilized as stimuli in the cognitive, neuropsychological and neuroimaging fields, yet there is no comprehensive set of normative information for these type of stimuli available for use across...

In this article we report on listener categorization of meaningful environmental sounds. A starting point for this study was the phenomenological taxonomy proposed by Gaver (1993b). In the first experimental study, 15 participants classified 60 environmental sounds and indicated the properties shared by the sounds in each class. In a second experimental study, 30 participants classified and des...

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