Sound collection and visualization system enabled participatory and opportunistic sensing approaches

—This paper presents a sound collection system to visualize environmental sounds that are collected using a crowdsourcing approach. An analysis of physical features is generally used to analyze sound properties; however, human beings not only analyze but also emotionally connect to sounds. If we want to visualize the sounds according to the characteristics of the listener, we need to collect not only the raw sound, but also the subjective feelings associated with them. For this purpose, we developed a sound collection system using a crowdsourcing approach to collect physical sounds, their statistics, and subjective evaluations simultaneously. We then conducted a sound collection experiment using the developed system on ten participants. We collected 6,257 samples of equivalent loudness levels and their locations, and 516 samples of sounds and their locations. Subjective evaluations by the participants are also included in the data. Next, we tried to visualize the sound on a map. The ...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2015
• Where: PERCOM
• Authors: Sunao Hara, Masanobu Abe, Noboru Sonehara
• Keywords: Computer Networks, PERCOM 2015