Roma Trepat, GerardJaner Mestres, JordiKersten, StefanSchirosa, MattiaHerrera Boyer, Perfecto, 1964-Serra, Xavier2018-05-152018-05-152010Roma G, Janer J, Kersten S, Schirosa M, Herrera P, Serra X. Ecological acoustics perspective for content-based retrieval of environmental sounds. EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing. 2010:960863. DOI: 10.1155/2010/9608631687-4714http://hdl.handle.net/10230/34635In this paper we present a method to search for environmental sounds in large unstructured databases of user-submitted audio, using a general sound events taxonomy from ecological acoustics. We discuss the use of Support VectorMachines to classify sound recordings according to the taxonomy and describe two use cases for the obtained classificationmodels: a content-based web search interface for a large audio database and a method for segmenting field recordings to assist sound design.application/pdfeng© 2010 Gerard Roma et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/960863Basic eventSound eventEnvironmental soundField recordingAudio clipinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess