Seminar Audio Processing and Indexing

(Will be updated. Last updated: November 27th 2022 )

Contents

 

 

Period: Fall September 6th - November 29th 2022

Time:   Tuesday 13.15 - 15.00

Place:  Room 405 (Snellius)

 

Organizers:

 

Lecturer:

Dr Erwin M. Bakker ( erwin@liacs.nl )

Room 126a and LIACS Media Lab (LML)

 

Teaching assistant:

to be announced

 

NB Register on BrightSpace.

 

Abstract:

During this seminar the fundamentals of audio processing and indexing will be studied. Applications in the area of speech recognition, audio synthesis and content based audio retrieval will be discussed. State of the art work on content based audio retrieval will be studied and presented by the participants.

The seminar starts with several lectures and accompanying assignments in the form of workshops; followed by a literature selection, study, and presentations by all the students; the seminar ends with final project demos / presentations.

Requirements: C, C++

Grading (6 ECTS): Presentations and Project (60% of grade). Class discussions, attendance, and workshops (40% of grade). It is necessary to be at every class and to complete every workshop. If you can not be there, you must contact Dr. E.M. Bakker before class!

Materials:

 

Lecture slides and further materials will be made available on this site.

 

List of recommended books:

 

Discrete-Time Speech Signal Processing, Principles and Practice by T.F. Quatieri, Prentice Hall PTR; ISBN 013242942, 2002.

 

Fundamentals of Speech Recognition by Lawrence Rabiner, and Biing-Hwang Juang (Hardcover, 507 pages; Publisher: Pearson Education POD; ISBN: 0130151572; 1st edition, April 12, 1993)

 

Spoken Language Processing: A Guide to Theory, Algorithm and System Development by Xuedong Huang , Alex Acero , Hsiao-Wuen Hon , Raj Reddy (Hardcover, 980 pages; Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; ISBN: 0130226165; 1st edition, April 25, 2001) 

 

Speech Recognition: Theory and C++ Implementation by Claudio Bechetti and Lucio Prina Ricotti (Hardcover, 407 pages; Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471977306; 1st edition April, 1999)

Links

 

 

 Schedule (tentative, visit regularly):
6-9
   Organization and Introduction
13-9   Audio Production and Processing
20-9
   ADC and an Algebraic Introduction to FT
27-9   FFT & FFT Workshop
4-10
   Project Proposals (presentations by  students)
11-10
   Audio Features & student paper selection (due October 17th 2022, 23.59) & workshop
18-10
   No Class
25-10   Machine Learning
1-11
 		  Student Paper Presentations I
8-11
 		  Student Paper Presentations II
15-11   Student Paper Presentations III
22-11   Student Paper Presentations IV
29-11   No class!
6-12
   Final Project Presentations Demo's
  Schedule will be available on Thursday
  November 24th on Brightspace.
19-12
 		  Project Deliverables:
  - Final Technical Project 
  - Paper (4-8 pages), code, and 
  - Web Site (or github)


Assignments (workshops):

  1. Vocal Tract Workshop. Due: September 20th 2022.
  2. FFT Workshop and audio_data. Due October 10th 2022.
  3. Audio Features Workshop. Due October 25th 2022.
  4. Machine Learning Workshop: this is an exploratory workshop. Due December 19th 2022.
Project Links Spring 2022

Student Paper-Presentations Session I-IV (examples from previous year)

Previous Project Titles and Pages

2021
Earlier - 2020
  • Second Voice Generation
  • Robustness of Musical Genre Identification
  • Improved Mobile Song Recognition
  • An iOS App using Bliss for Improved Communication through Text-To-Speech
  • ScoreAid
  • Emotion Recognition
  • Instrument Detection
  • Musical Instrument Recognizer ( Annotation  )
  • Audio Feature Extraction with Deep Belief Networks
  • Audio Morphing
  • Audio Indexing the 1.000.000 song data set
  • Chord Recognition
  • Audio Phantom Materialization
  • Harmonic Model Based Audio Transformations
  • Content-Based Music Similarity, Visualization and Automatic Play-List Generation.
  • Indexing and Predicting Bands from Unknown Songs
  • Interpolation between Different Instruments
  • Modular Synthesizer
  • Hit Predictor
  • Pitch Perfector
  • Inter-Voice Morphing

Presentations

During the seminar we will study state-of-the-art audio indexing methods and techniques using recent scientific publications from international journals, workshops, and conferences on content based audio retrieval.

Each student will present a recent technical paper:

  • Each student will have to select 1 very recent scientific publications on audio processing and/or indexing.

  • Each student will study the selected paper into great detail, and present it during a 12 minutes talk followed by 3 minutes of questions for a critical audience.

  • In order to ensure a critical audience, every student in class is expected to have read at least the title, abstract and conclusions of the papers to be presented. Also every student is expected to have prepared at least one question per paper.

Projects

During the seminar each student has to do a project related to audio processing/synthesis/indexing.

The agenda for the projects is as follows:

  1. Project proposal presentation (4 slides):

    • Title of the proposal+group members (1-5 members).

    • Problem description.

    • Challenges.

    • What will be the goal for the Final Project Presentation/Demo.

    • Note: If the group consists of more than 1 member, add a 5th slide with an initial global division of the work between project members. This slide does not have to be presented.

  2. Project status reports.

  3. Final project presentation / demo.

  4. Final technical project paper.

Project Web Pages

Every student has to maintain a project web page or github on which progress, documents, code, links, etc. related to the project are maintained. Here you can find an example project page. Feel free to design your own project web page though. Do not forget to mail me the link to your project page.

Note: Using your university account you can put your web-page under a directory \home\public_html.

Journals

You have access to all of the listed journals by using your ULCN-
account (for further details see http://www.bibliotheek.leidenuniv.nl/ ):