On the Use of FastMap for Audio Retrieval and Browsing            

Pedro Cano, Martin Kaltenbrunner, Fabien Gouyon and Eloi Batlle                                         
Music Technology Group                                                     
Universitat Pompeu Fabra                                                   
08002, Barcelona, Spain                                                    
34 93 542 22 02                                                       



ABSTRACT
In this article, a heuristic version of Multidimensional Scaling
(MDS) named is used for audio retrieval and browsing.  ysis (PCA) is proposed.
like MDS, maps objects into an Euclideanspace, such
that similarities are preserved. In additionof being more eficient
than MDS it allows querybyexample type of query, which makes      
it suitable for a contentbased retrieval purposes.               
is proposed to address this issue. 

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