Note: Sound recovery from video using SVD-based information extraction

• Published in: Review of scientific instruments Vol. 87; no. 8; p. 086111
• Main Authors: Zhang, Dashan, Guo, Jie, Lei, Xiujun, Zhu, Chang’an
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Institute of Physics 01.08.2016
• Subjects: High speed cameras; Information retrieval; Mathematical analysis; Matrix methods; Scientific apparatus & instruments; Singular value decomposition; Sound waves
• ISSN: 0034-6748; 1089-7623
• DOI: 10.1063/1.4961979

This note reports an efficient singular value decomposition (SVD)-based vibration extraction approach that recovers sound information in silent high-speed video. A high-speed camera of which frame rates are in the range of 2 kHz–10 kHz is applied to film the vibrating objects. Sub-images cut from video frames are transformed into column vectors and then reconstructed to a new matrix. The SVD of the new matrix produces orthonormal image bases (OIBs) and image projections onto specific OIB can be recovered as understandable acoustical signals. Standard frequencies of 256 Hz and 512 Hz tuning forks are extracted offline from their vibrating surfaces and a 3.35 s speech signal is recovered online from a piece of paper that is stimulated by sound waves within 1 min.