Innovations in Audio Data: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

The rapid advancement of ICT has revolutionized the field of data processing, information retrieval, and knowledge mining in the domain of sound/audio signals. As technology continues to evolve, the integration of data-driven approaches in audio creation, analysis, and experiences has become increasingly important, influencing diverse fields such as music, film, gaming, medicine, and user-interfaces and facilitating a wide breadth of extended reality applications. The ever-increasing prominence of technology provides a unique opportunity to explore the effects of audio data use and management in artistic domains, especially in the field of audiovisual arts.

This Special Issue aims to explore the latest developments and emerging trends in the interdisciplinary area of audio data use and management. Accordingly, we invite researchers and practitioners to submit their original contributions to address the challenges and opportunities in this exciting and multi-disciplinary field.

Topics of interest for this Special Issue include but are not limited to the following:

• Audio analysis and feature extraction techniques for data processing;
• Machine learning and deep learning approaches for audio classification, recognition, and audio-based artistic expression;
• Semantic audio analysis and retrieval;
• Interactive sound design and spatial audio for immersive audiovisual arts and extended reality experiences;
• Acoustic signal processing and enhancement;
• Music information retrieval and recommendation systems;
• Speech processing and spoken language understanding, especially in interactive multimedia or extended reality applications;
• Environmental audio recognition and event detection;
• Audio indexing, searching, and retrieval in large-scale databases;
• Cross-modal retrieval involving audio and other modalities (e.g., text, images);
• Applications of audio data processing and audio data use in various domains (e.g., healthcare, entertainment, security, arts, etc.);
• Semantic audio analysis for enhancing audiovisual interactive storytelling;
• Innovative applications of audio data processing in interactive audiovisual installations and exhibitions.

Thus, we encourage submissions that present novel algorithms, methodologies, experimental results, and real-world applications. All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous peer-review process to ensure that the contributions are of the highest quality and relevant to the overarching theme of this Special Issue.

Dr. Ioannis Karydis
Dr. Ioannis Deliyannis
Guest Editors

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• sound data
• information retrieval
• sound analysis
• sound processing
• sound design
• machine learning
• classification
• sound recognition
• music information retrieval
• speech processing
• semantic sound analysis
• audiovisual arts
• immersive experiences
• environmental sound recognition
• sound indexing
• interactive multimedia
• interactive storytelling
• innovative applications
• interdisciplinary research
• technology integration