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MPTK: the Matching Pursuit Toolkit
Participants : Rémi Gribonval, Jules Espiau.
The Matching Pursuit ToolKit (MPTK) is a fast and flexible implementation of the Matching Pursuit algorithm for sparse decomposition of monophonic as well as multichannel (audio) signals. MPTK is written in C++ and runs on Windows, MacOS and Unix platforms. It is distributed under a free software license model (GNU General Public License) and comprises a library, some standalone command line utilities and scripts to plot the results under Matlab.
MPTK has been entirely developed within the METISS group mainly to overcome limitations of existing Matching Pursuit implementations in terms of ease of maintainability, memory footage or computation speed. One of the aims is to be able to process in reasonable time large audio files to explore the new possibilities which Matching Pursuit can offer in speech signal processing. With the new implementation, it is now possible indeed to process a one hour audio signal in as little as twenty minutes.
Thanks to an Inria software development operation (Opération de Développement Logiciel, ODL) started in September 2006, METISS efforts have been targeted at easing the distribution of MPTK by improving its portability to different platforms and simplifying its developpers' API. Besides pure software engineering improvements, this implied setting up a new website with an FAQ, developing new interfaces between MPTK and Matlab and Python, writing a portable Graphical User Interface to complement command line utilities, strengthening the robustness of the input/output using XML where possible, and most importantly setting up a whole new plugin API to decouple the core of the library from possible third party contributions.
Collaboration : Laboratoire d'Acoustique Musicale (University of Paris VII, Jussieu).
Contact : remi.gribonval@irisa.fr