Documentation for MDS/SoundProperty

Technique SoundProperty
Document MPEG-7 MDS FCD (N3966) and XM (e.g. N3464), see SequentialSummary
Name Masaru Sugano, Yasuyuki Nakajima (KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc.)
EMail sugano@kddlabs.net, nakajima@kddlabs.net
Contact sugano@kddlabs.net
Type Application
External Libraries libAO and libtsp, included in AFsp v5r0
Related Ds/DSs SummaryDS, SequentialSummaryDS
Used Ds/DSs None
Input List of audio files (in supported formats by AFsp)
Output Summary audio clip files (foo_sum%n.xxx; the same extension/format as input)
(n is a serial number)
Extraction Yes
Client Appl NA
Summary This software reads a list of audio files (in supported formats by AFsp),
extracts the audio summary for each audio file by applying sub-band analysis, and
generates summary audio clips in the same format as input and a description file
for an audio slide show.
It adopts the AFsp library for audio file I/O.
Strong Points This tool can extract an appropriate summary audio clip especially from vocal music.
Limitations The duration of audio summary for each slide component is fixed (15 sec).
This tool extracts one summary clip from one whole (individual) audio file.
The SyncTime element has not been implemented.
Known Problems No specific problem is found.
Parameters Parameter file is not used.
Application name, database file name and bitstream file name are provided by
command line option ([-a], [-l] and [-b] respectively). A batch file is provided.