Classification of audio signals using SVM and RBFNN

In the age of digital information, audio data has become an important part in many modern computer applications. Audio classification has been becoming a focus in the research of audio processing and pattern recognition. Automatic audio classification is very useful to audio indexing, content-based audio retrieval and on-line audio distribution, but it is a challenge to extract the most common and salient themes from unstructured raw audio data. In this paper, we propose effective algorithms to automatically classify audio clips into one of six classes: music, news, sports, advertisement, cartoon and movie. For these categories a number of acoustic features that include linear predictive coefficients, linear predictive cepstral coefficients and mel-frequency cepstral coefficients are extracted to characterize the audio content. Support vector machines are applied to classify audio into their respective classes by learning from training data. Then the proposed method extends the application of neural network (RBFNN) for the classification of audio. RBFNN enables nonlinear transformation followed by linear transformation to achieve a higher dimension in the hidden space. The experiments on different genres of the various categories illustrate the results of classification are significant and effective. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.