Adaptive Weighting Audio Matching Index
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing audio matching systems face challenges in efficiently allocating storage space for large databases of reference sample descriptors while maintaining robustness to distortions and scalability, particularly in accurately identifying popular content.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of an adaptive weighting system that maintains an audio reference index with descriptors and scores based on user popularity, generating a weighted reference index to allocate more resources to popular content, thereby optimizing storage and improving identification accuracy.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If a large database containing millions of reference samples is created to ensure accurate matching, then matching accuracy is improved, but storage space and system complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by allocating different numbers of descriptors to different reference samples based on their popularity. Popular reference samples (e.g., frequently matched audio content) are allocated more descriptors and interest points, while less popular samples receive fewer descriptors. This creates a non-uniform distribution of resources where each reference sample receives the appropriate level of detail based on local needs, thereby maintaining high matching accuracy for popular content while reducing overall storage requirements.
2Reliability
If multiple descriptors are generated for each reference sample to improve robustness to distortion, then robustness is improved, but database size and processing complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements partial action by generating multiple descriptors for each reference sample, but not all descriptors are used with equal weight. Instead, the system selectively applies descriptors based on their relevance and the specific matching context. The weighting mechanism applies partial action by emphasizing certain descriptors over others, allowing the system to achieve robustness to distortion without processing all possible descriptors equally, thus reducing computational complexity while maintaining reliability.
3Ease of operation
If uniform allocation of descriptors is used for all reference samples, then system simplicity is maintained, but matching accuracy for popular content decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dynamics by implementing an adaptive weighting system where the number of descriptors allocated to each reference sample is not fixed but dynamically adjusted based on popularity metrics. The system automatically updates descriptor allocations as popularity changes over time, allowing popular content to receive more descriptors when needed while maintaining simplicity in the underlying data structure. This dynamic approach resolves the contradiction by making the system adapt to changing requirements without requiring complex manual configuration.
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AI summary
Systems and methods are provided herein relating to audio matching. Adaptive weighting of popular reference content can be used to more efficiently allocate space in a weighted reference index used to match audio signals. An audio reference index can be maintained that contains a set of audio references wherein each audio reference in the set of audio references is associated with a score. A weighted reference index can be generated based on the audio reference index and the score associated with each audio reference wherein respective audio references are up-weighted or up-scored based at least in part of user popularity. The benefits in using adaptive weighting of popular reference content can improve the accuracy of an audio matching system.


