@inproceedings{d4503f7fea94426c89860c91f246b53b,
title = "Building a personalized audio equalizer interface with transfer learning and active learning",
abstract = "Potential users of audio production software, such as audio equalizers, may be discouraged by the complexity of the interface and a lack of clear affordances in typical interfaces. In this work, we create a personalized on-screen slider that lets the user manipulate the audio with an equalizer in terms of a descriptive term (e.g. {"}warm{"}). The system learns mappings by presenting a sequence of sounds to the user and correlating the gain in each frequency band with the user's preference rating. This method is extended and improved on by incorporating knowledge from a database of prior concepts taught to the system by prior users. This is done with a combination of active learning and simple transfer learning. Results on a study of 35 participants show personalized audio manipulation tool can be built with 10 times fewer interactions than is possible with the baseline approach.",
keywords = "Active learning, Audio, Equalizer, Interface, Music, Transfer learning",
author = "Pardo, {Bryan A} and David Little and Darren Gergle",
year = "2012",
month = dec,
day = "10",
doi = "10.1145/2390848.2390852",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781450315913",
series = "MIRUM 2012 - Proceedings of the 2nd International ACM Workshop on Music Information Retrieval with User-Centered and Multimodal Strategies, Co-located with ACM Multimedia 2012",
pages = "13--18",
booktitle = "MIRUM 2012 - Proceedings of the 2nd International ACM Workshop on Music Information Retrieval with User-Centered and Multimodal Strategies, Co-located with ACM Multimedia 2012",
note = "2nd International ACM Workshop on Music Information Retrieval with User-Centered and Multimodal Strategies, MIRUM 2012 - Co-located with ACM Multimedia 2012 ; Conference date: 02-11-2012 Through 02-11-2012",
}