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An Efficient Audio Coding Scheme for Quantitative and Qualitative Large Scale Acoustic Monitoring Using the Sensor

Félix Gontier¹, Mathieu Lagrange², Pierre Aumond^3,4

¹LS2N, UMR 6004, École Centrale de Nantes, 44300 Nantes, France. felix.gontier@ls2n.fr.

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A new audio coding scheme uses third octave band spectral representation for efficient acoustic monitoring. This method enables quantitative and qualitative environmental sound analysis while protecting citizen privacy.

Keywords:

acoustic monitoring audio encoding

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Area of Science:

Environmental Science
Acoustics
Signal Processing

Background:

Urbanization and population growth present significant societal and environmental challenges.
Effective monitoring of the acoustic environment is crucial for addressing these concerns.
Advancements in low-cost acoustic sensors enable new approaches to environmental sound monitoring.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose an efficient audio coding scheme for acoustic sensor grids.
To enable the estimation of standard acoustic indicators and recognition of acoustic events.
To ensure data privacy by rendering spectrally encoded audio unintelligible in the time domain.

Main Methods:

Development of an audio coding scheme based on third octave band spectral representation.
Utilizing sensor grid networks for widespread acoustic data acquisition.
Employing state-of-the-art techniques for spectral data transformation and analysis.

Main Results:

The proposed scheme efficiently estimates standard acoustic indicators for quantitative environmental assessment.
State-of-the-art performance is achieved in recognizing acoustic events for qualitative insights.
Spectrally encoded data, when reverted to the time domain, is unintelligible, ensuring citizen privacy.

Conclusions:

The developed audio coding scheme is effective for acoustic sensor grid applications.
It provides a robust method for both quantitative and qualitative acoustic environment monitoring.
The scheme successfully balances data utility with the critical need for citizen privacy protection.