/*
* @(#)StrengthOfStrongestBeat.java 1.0 April 5, 2005.
*
* McGill Univarsity
*/
package org.vocvark.AudioFeatures;
import org.vocvark.DataTypes.FeatureDefinition;
/**
* A feature extractor that extracts the Strength of Strongest Beat from
* a signal. This is a measure of how strong the strongest beat is compared
* to other possible beats.
* <p/>
* <p>This is calculated by finding the entry in the beat histogram corresponding
* to the strongest beat and dividing it by the sum of all entries in the
* beat histogram.
* <p/>
* <p>No extracted feature values are stored in objects of this class.
*
* @author Cory McKay
*/
public class StrengthOfStrongestBeat
extends FeatureExtractorBaseImpl {
/* CONSTRUCTOR **************************************************************/
/**
* Basic constructor that sets the definition and dependencies (and their
* offsets) of this feature.
*/
public StrengthOfStrongestBeat() {
String name = "Strength Of Strongest Beat";
String description = "How strong the strongest beat in the beat histogram " +
"is compared to other potential beats.";
boolean is_sequential = true;
int dimensions = 1;
definition = new FeatureDefinition(name,
description,
is_sequential,
dimensions);
dependencies = new String[2];
dependencies[0] = "Beat Histogram";
dependencies[1] = "Beat Sum";
offsets = new int[2];
offsets[0] = 0;
offsets[1] = 0;
}
/* PUBLIC METHODS **********************************************************/
/**
* Extracts this feature from the given samples at the given sampling
* rate and given the other feature values.
* <p/>
* <p>In the case of this feature the sampling_rate is ignored.
*
* @param samples The samples to extract the feature from.
* @param sampling_rate The sampling rate that the samples are
* encoded with.
* @param other_feature_values The values of other features that are
* needed to calculate this value. The
* order and offsets of these features
* must be the same as those returned by
* this class's getDependencies and
* getDependencyOffsets methods respectively.
* The first indice indicates the feature/window
* and the second indicates the value.
* @throws Exception Throws an informative exception if
* the feature cannot be calculated.
* @return The extracted feature value(s).
*/
public double[] extractFeature(double[] samples,
double sampling_rate,
double[][] other_feature_values)
throws Exception {
double[] beat_histogram = other_feature_values[0];
if (beat_histogram != null) {
double beat_sum = other_feature_values[1][0];
int highest_bin = org.vocvark.GeneralTools.Statistics.getIndexOfLargest(beat_histogram);
double highest_strength = beat_histogram[highest_bin];
double normalized_strength = highest_strength / beat_sum;
double[] result = new double[1];
result[0] = normalized_strength;
return result;
} else
return null;
}
/**
* Create an identical copy of this feature. This permits FeatureExtractor
* to use the prototype pattern to create new composite features using
* metafeatures.
*/
public Object clone() {
return new StrengthOfStrongestBeat();
}
}