Sound Examples for a Montage Approach to Sound Synthesis

Synthesized examples twice the duration of the originals. 

Montage - Removing Unique Elements

This steamrail sample has an audible unique event.  The montage approach is used to identify and replace this unique event.

Montage - Recovering Damaged Textures

This helicopter sample has two missing pieces.  The montage approach is used to identify and replace these pieces.  Notice that the replaced events preserve the quasi-periodic nature of the sample.

Montage and Wavelet Tree Algorithm

The following examples compare results from the wavelet tree algorithm of Dubnov et al. [1] and results from the montage approach to sound texture synthesis.

Montage and AudioTexture Algorithm

The next samples compare the montage approach to that of Lu et al.'s AudioTexture method [2].  Notice the periodic tilling in the AudioTexture Rain sample.

[1] Shlomo Dubnov, Ziv Bar-joseph, Ran El-Yaniv, Dani Lischin- ski, and Michael Werman,“Synthesis of sound textures by learning and resampling of wavelet trees,” 2002

[2] Lie Lu, Liu Wenyin, and Hong-Jiang Zhang, “Audio textures: theory and applications,”Speech and Audio Processing, IEEE Transactions on, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 156–167, 2004.