From Sound Synthesis to Sound Retrieval and Back
Google engEDU
55 min – Jul 10, 2007
Google Tech Talks
July 10, 2007
In this talk I will go over the technological and conceptual ties that exist between some of the current trends in sound generation for music and multimedia applications and the techniques for content based sound retrieval. This is because quite a number of the techniques being worked on for sound retrieval come from the field of sound synthesis and at the same time the new developments in retrieval are being applied and are inspiring new directions in the development of sound generation systems. To explain all this I will use examples from the research carried out in the Music Technology Group at the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona, Spain. In particular I will go over our research on spectral based concatenative synthesis and our work on sound and music retrieval. Also I will link it with the online community that we have developed for sharing sound files, Freesound http://freesound.iua.upf.edu, showing the potential that this open and shared resource has for the research on sound retrieval and for experimenting with new sound generation systems.
Speaker: Xavier Serra
Director of the Music Technology Group (http://mtg.upf.edu)
Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona
video
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1001788948064844735
- Download: “From Sound Synthesis To Sound Retrieval And Back” (video/mp4)
Tags: abstract, c, development, http, lan, search, server