Reading features from output file

[yugen-ok]

Hello all,

I am trying to extract features using the config file config/is09-13/IS13_ComParE.conf. I applied it on the opensmile.wav example.

My issue is that the resulting csv has instead of values for features, only types (that is, each feature's "value" is its type), which is either string (for the first feature, the filename), or a numeral (for all other features. And it seems that the feature values are all stuck in the last 2 rows of the csv.

Maybe I misunderstand something.
Thanks!

The command I used to generate this is:

build/progsrc/smilextract/SMILExtract -C config//is09-13/IS13_ComParE.conf -I example-audio/opensmile.wav -O opensmile.energy.csv -instname example-audio/opensmile.wav

The file is attached below.

opensmile.energy.csv

[chausner-audeering]

The command you use generates ARFF files (for use with the Weka toolkit), not CSV files. To get CSV output, you should use -csvoutput instead of -O. You can see this by inspecting https://github.com/audeering/opensmile/blob/master/config/shared/standard_data_output.conf.inc where the command-line parameters are defined.

[yugen-ok]

Thanks! I did that, and now I got a csv format, but there is only one row of data with the value of "frameTime" being 0.0. I tried it with and without -instname, and on both opensmile.wav and media-interpretation.wav, both with the same result.

Also, some of the features have a number in brackets, either between 0-14 or between 0-25, and I'm not sure what it means.

I read the user guide but I still don't get what I'm doing wrong. Any help would be appreciated.

[chausner-audeering]

It sounds like you would like to extract LLD (framewise low-level descriptor) features instead of functional features. LLD features are extracted for low-level frames so you would get a feature vector for every x ms. Functional features are aggregates computed on top of LLD features and by default, aggregated over the full input length so you end up with a single feature vector. This is what is output by default. If you want to get the LLD output, use -lldcsvoutput instead of -csvoutput.

[chausner-audeering]

Also, some of the features have a number in brackets, either between 0-14 or between 0-25, and I'm not sure what it means.

Those are features that have array values, i.e. more than one value. The number indicates the index.