On the Use of Time–Frequency Reassignment and SVM-Based Classifier for Audio Surveillance Applications

In this paper, we propose a robust environmental sound spectrogram classification approach. Its purpose is surveillance and security applications based on the reassignment method and log-Gabor filters. Besides, the reassignment method is applied to the spectrogram to improve the readability of the time-frequency representation, and to assure a better localization of the signal components. Our approach includes three methods. In the first two methods, the reassigned spectrograms are passed through appropriate log-Gabor filter banks and the outputs are averaged and underwent an optimal feature selection procedure based on a mutual information criterion. The third method uses the same steps but applied only to three patches extracted from each reassigned spectrogram. The proposed approach is tested on a large database consists of 1000 sounds belonging to ten classes. The recognition is based on Multiclass Support Vector Machines.