| Title | The Musical Avatar - A visualization of musical preferences by means of audio content description |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2010 |
| Conference Name | 5th Audio Mostly Conference: A Conference on Interaction with Sound |
| Authors | Haro, M., Xambó A., Fuhrmann F., Bogdanov D., Gómez E., & Herrera P. |
| Conference Start Date | 15/09/2010 |
| Publisher | ACM New York, NY, USA |
| Conference Location | Pitea, Sweden |
| Abstract | The music we like (i.e. our musical preferences) encodes and communicates key information about ourselves. Depicting such preferences in a condensed and easily understandable way is very appealing, especially considering the current trends in social networked communications. In this paper we propose a method to automatically generate, given a provided set of preferred music tracks, an iconic representation of a user’s musical preferences – the Musical Avatar. Starting from the raw audio signal we first compute over 60 low-level audio features. Then, by applying pattern recognition methods, we infer a set of semantic descriptors for each track in the collection. Next, we summarize these track-level semantic descriptors, obtaining a user profile. Finally, we map this collection-wise description to the visual domain by creating a humanoid cartoony character that represents the user’s musical preferences. We performed a proof-of-concept evaluation of the proposed method on 11 subjects with promising results. The analysis of the users’ evaluations shows a clear preference for avatars generated by the proposed semantic descriptors over avatars derived from neutral or randomly generated values. We also found a general agreement on the representativeness of the users’ musical preferences via the proposed visualization strategy.
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| Full Document | files/publications/avatar_AM2010.pdf |
| DOI | http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1859799.1859813 |
