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    Acoustic Event Classification using spectral band selection and Non-Negative Matrix Factorization-based features
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2016) Ludeña Choez, Jimmy; Gallardo Antolín, Ascensión; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#2.02.01
    Feature extraction methods for sound events have been traditionally based on parametric representations specifically developed for speech signals, such as the well-known Mel Frequency Cepstrum Coefficients (MFCC). However, the discrimination capabilities of these features for Acoustic Event Classification (AEC) tasks could be enhanced by taking into account the spectro-temporal structure of acoustic event signals. In this paper, a new front-end for AEC which incorporates this specific information is proposed. It consists of two different stages: short-time feature extraction and temporal feature integration. The first module aims at providing a better spectral representation of the different acoustic events on a frame-by-frame basis, by means of the automatic selection of the optimal set of frequency bands from which cepstral-like features are extracted. The second stage is designed for capturing the most relevant temporal information in the short-time features, through the application of Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) on their periodograms computed over long audio segments. The whole front-end has been evaluated in clean and noisy conditions. Experiments show that the removal of certain frequency bands (which are mainly located in the medium region of the spectrum for clean conditions and in low frequencies for noisy environments) in the short-time feature computation process in conjunction with the NMF technique for temporal feature integration improves significantly the performance of a Support Vector Machine (SVM) based AEC system with respect to the use of conventional MFCCs. © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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    Feature extraction based on the high-pass filtering of audio signals for Acoustic Event Classification
    (Academic Press, 2015) Ludeña Choez, Jimmy; Gallardo Antolín, Ascensión
    In this paper, we propose a new front-end for Acoustic Event Classification tasks (AEC). First, we study the spectral characteristics of different acoustic events in comparison with the structure of speech spectra. Second, from the findings of this study, we propose a new parameterization for AEC, which is an extension of the conventional Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) and is based on the high pass filtering of the acoustic event signal. The proposed front-end have been tested in clean and noisy conditions and compared to the conventional MFCC in an AEC task. Results support the fact that the high pass filtering of the audio signal is, in general terms, beneficial for the system, showing that the removal of frequencies below 100-275 Hz in the feature extraction process in clean conditions and below 400-500 Hz in noisy conditions, improves significantly the performance of the system with respect to the baseline. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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    NMF-based temporal feature integration for acoustic event classification
    (International Speech and Communication Association, 2013) Ludeña Choez, Jimmy Diestin; Gallardo Antolín, Ascensión
    In this paper, we propose a new front-end for Acoustic Event Classification tasks (AEC) based on the combination of the temporal feature integration technique called Filter Bank Coefficients (FC) and Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (NMF). FC aims to capture the dynamic structure in the short-term features by means of the summarization of the periodogram of each short-term feature dimension in several frequency bands using a predefined filter bank. As the commonly used filter bank has been devised for other tasks (such as music genre classification), it can be suboptimal for AEC. In order to overcome this drawback, we propose an unsupervised method based on NMF for learning the filters which collect the most relevant temporal information in the short-time features for AEC. The experiments show that the features obtained with this method achieve significant improvements in the classification performance of a Support Vector Machine (SVM) based AEC system in comparison with the baseline FC features. Copyright © 2013 ISCA.