Extract Audio Spectrum Envelope

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Extract Audio Spectrum Envelope is available here. You will also need BLAS, LAPACK, FFTW3, and libsndfile. Important: if you use this program, you might be liable to MPEG-7 licensing fees. Caveat emptor.

1. Introduction

This package consists of two programs: EASE and WASP.

1.1. EASE (Extract Audio Spectrum Envelope)

This program extracts audio spectrum envelopes from monaural sound files. The extraction algorithm conforms to the International Standard ISO/IEC 15938-4:2002 (also known as MPEG-7 Audio).

When invoked with the -i switch, the resulting output would no longer be standard-compliant. Instead, it would be in an intermediate format, where the data consists of an int which denotes the column size n, followed by a mxn matrix in double precision, with m frames and n bins in row major order (n * i + j).

Synopsis: ease [-i] [-h hopsize] [-w winsize] [-l loEdge]
               [-u hiEdge] [-o octaveResolution] infile outfile

Example:  ease -i -l 545.25 -u 6727 -o 1/16 test.wav test.eas

Note that hopsize should be specified using mediaDurationType.

1.2. WASP (Write Audio Spectrum Projection)

This program reads a binary input file, extracts its audio spectrum projection, and writes the extraction to the output file as tab-delimited text. Optionally, its audio spectrum basis can be extracted to a separate text file.

The binary input file shall contain an audio spectrum envelope in the intermediate EASE format.

The extraction algorithm conforms to the MPEG-7 standard.

Synopsis: wasp [-n k] [-t icatype] [-b basisfile] infile outfile

Valid values for icatype:
     0    No ICA
     1    Symmetric fastICA (tanh)
     2    Jade
     3    Extended infomax

Example: wasp -n 15 -t 1 -b test.bas test.eas test.was

2. Compilation

If you wish to create autoconf files from scratch, try:

    % aclocal -I .
    % autoheader
    % automake --add-missing --copy
    % autoconf

Otherwise just follow the instructions in the INSTALL file.

3. References

ISO/IEC 15938-4:2002, Information Technology -- Multimedia Content Description Interface -- Part 4: Audio.

Revision History

Version 1.0 (03/12/18): First SourceForge release.
Version 0.0 (02/10/22): First alpha release.