PWLTO#11 – Peter Sobot on An Industrial-Strength Audio Search Algorithm

Peter will be presenting An Industrial-Strength Audio Search Algorithm by Avery Li-Chun Wang.

Paper: https://www.ee.columbia.edu/~dpwe/papers/Wang03-shazam.pdf
Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-Toronto/events/224721193/

This paper introduces the Shazam algorithm, the core algorithm behind the popular Shazam music and audio identification service.
We'll discuss what problems the algorithm solves and how it works quickly and effectively. This talk is fairly high-level, and is aimed at anybody interested in learning how Shazam works, but will be of special interest to those interested in large-scale information retrieval, audio processing or perceptual hashing.

Paper Link: https://www.ee.columbia.edu/~dpwe/papers/Wang03-shazam.pdf

Doors open at 6:30 pm, presentation will begin at 7:00 pm. There will be food and refreshments provided by Shopify.

Peter Sobot is a software engineer at PagerDuty, where he helps add new functionality to their high-availability alerting platform.