EventDetectiononSmartphones.PDF

Auditeur: A Mobile-Cloud Service Platform for Acoustic Event Detection on Smartphones Shahriar Nirjon , Robert F. Dickerson , Philip Asare , Qiang Li , Dezhi Hong , John A. Stankovic , Pan Hu , Guobin Shen , and Xiaofan Jiang Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia, USA Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China Intel Labs China, Beijing, China {smn8z, rfd7a, pka6qz, lq7c, dh5gm, stankovic}@, {v-pah, jacky.shen}@, fred.jiang@ ABSTRACT 1. INTRODUCTION Auditeur is a general-purpose, energy-efficient, and context-aware Being able to deliver smartphone apps quickly to customers is acoustic event detection platform for smartphones. It enables app crucial in today’s highly competitive app market. Developers de- developers to have their app register for and get notified on a wide pend heavily on APIs provided by their smartphone platform for variety of acoustic events. Auditeur is backed by a cloud service common tasks, but when it lacks necessary functions for their ap- to store user contributed sound clips and to generate an energy- plication, it costs developers weeks of time for implementation. efficient and context-aware classification plan for the phone. When Beyond just time, many developers do not have the necessary tech- an acoustic event type has been registered