ESSENTIA: an open source library for audio analysis

Bogdanov, Dmitry; Wack, Nicolas; Gómez Gutiérrez, Emilia, 1975-; Gulati, Sankalp; Herrera Boyer, Perfecto, 1964-; Mayor, Oscar; Roma Trepat, Gerard; Salamon, Justin; Zapata González, José Ricardo; Serra, Xavier

ESSENTIA: an open source library for audio analysis

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Bogdanov D, Wack N, Gómez E, Gulati S, Herrera P, Mayor O,Roma G, Salamon J, Zapata J, Serra X. ESSENTIA: an open source library for audio analysis. ACM SIGMM Records. 2014;6(1):18-21.

Abstract

Over the last decade, audio analysis has become afield of active research in academic and engineeringworlds. It refers to the extraction of information andmeaning from audio signals for analysis, classification,storage, retrieval, and synthesis, among other tasks.Related research topics challange understanding and modeling of sound and music, and develop methodsand technologies that can be used to process audioin order to extract acoustically and musically relevantdata and make use of this information. Audio analysistechniques are instrumental in the development of newaudio-related products and services, because thesetechniques allow novel ways of interaction with soundand music.