[Clam-devel] MFCC Loops

Xavier Amatriain xavier at amatriain.net
Mon Sep 7 14:42:11 PDT 2009


The audio is simply "trimmed" to WindowSize. Look at line 141:

http://clam-project.org/doc/CLAM-doxygen/SpectralAnalysis_8cxx-source.html#l00134

paul simmons wrote:
> A more clear question, sorry for two posts; what happens when I send
> an audio of size larger than SpectrumConfig.WindowSize() ?
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:27 AM, paul simmons<pauls631 at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>> I think the problem is about my SpectralAnalysis config. Just to
>> clarify; I send an audio as the code below, at each while() iteration,
>> it reads a chunk of audio (in size of Audio.SetSize()) and returns
>> just one spectrum, melspectrum and mfcc vector (ok, let's put
>> overlapping for a moment). But if you say SpectralAnalysis handles
>> everything (and I configure right), I think I should get an array of
>> spectrum (and others) vector according to the HopSize right? What is
>> my mistake here?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Xavier Amatriain<xavier at amatriain.net> wrote:
>>     
>>> I don't think there is a simple example of this. However, if I remember
>>> right, there are two ways to do the loop if you want to have overlapping
>>> windows or frames:
>>>
>>> 1) Read the whole audio from the audio file into a CLAM::Audio and manage
>>> the "chunk" you send to the SpectralAnalysis Do by advancing your read
>>> pointer by "hopsize" (which, if overlapping, will be less than windowSize)
>>>
>>> 2) Use ports and let them manage this for you. This is what you can see if
>>> you analyze the code in SMSAnalysisCore.cxx
>>>
>>> http://clam-project.org/doc/CLAM-doxygen/SMSAnalysisCore_8cxx-source.html
>>>
>>> If you don't need overlap, SpectralAnalysis will take care of everything
>>> (windowing, etc...) as long as you configure the parameters right so you
>>> don't need to worry about 1 or 2.
>>>
>>> X
>>>
>>> paul simmons wrote:
>>>       
>>>> well, let me change the question then. is there a "code" sample for
>>>> doing spectral analysis with overlapping windows (ie using windowsize
>>>> and hopsize parameters)?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Pau Arumí<pau.arumi at barcelonamedia.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Hi Paul,
>>>>> I didn't understand exactly where the problem is.
>>>>> (However I think the most qualified to answer you is David Garcia who is
>>>>> currently on holidays. He'll be back in a week or two.)
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>> P
>>>>>
>>>>> El dl 07 de 09 de 2009 a les 16:54 +0200, en/na paul simmons va
>>>>> escriure:
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> I am trying to do MFCC extraction. As far as I get; the steps are
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Read an "Audio"
>>>>>> Run "SpectralAnalysis" on output of "Audio"
>>>>>> Run "MelFilterBank" on output of "SpectralAnalysis"
>>>>>> Run "CepstralTransform" on output of "MelFilterBank"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> right?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If so; I cannot understand where to do looping, for example if I do:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    while(mReader.Do(audio))
>>>>>>    {
>>>>>>        spectralAnalysis.Do(audio, spectrum);
>>>>>>        melFilterBank.Do(spectrum, melSpectrum);
>>>>>>        cepstralTransform.Do(melSpectrum, melCepstrum);
>>>>>>
>>>>>>        CLAM::XMLStorage::Dump(audio,"Audio",a);
>>>>>>        CLAM::XMLStorage::Dump(spectrum, "Spectrum",s);
>>>>>>        CLAM::XMLStorage::Dump(melSpectrum, "MelSpectrum",m);
>>>>>>        CLAM::XMLStorage::Dump(melCepstrum, "MelCepstrum",n);
>>>>>>    }
>>>>>>
>>>>>> it applies mfcc to each read audio patch (mentioned by Audio.SetSize)
>>>>>> and got one MFCC feature vector. But I cannot understand how
>>>>>> WindowSize or HopSize is applied in this fashion. Because since Audio
>>>>>> is read in non-overlapping windows with mReader.Do(), overlapped
>>>>>> windows are run only for current audio part
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think there must be another , more correct way to get overlapping
>>>>>> windows continuesly in whole audio, but cannot find it. Any ideas?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks...
>>>>>>
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