nbiish/rocket-launch-acoustic-forensics

🚀 Rocket Launch Acoustic Forensics

Key Finding: 93.6% Acoustic Similarity across rocket launches from Michigan, Florida, and California.

This interactive demo showcases forensic audio analysis demonstrating that rocket launches produce highly consistent acoustic signatures regardless of geographic location.

Features

• —📊 Complete Analysis Report - Pre-computed results from 5 videos
• —🔬 Methodology - Educational walkthrough of the analysis pipeline
• —🎯 Try It Yourself - Upload your own videos for analysis
• —ℹ️ Documentation - Complete research details

Research Results

93.6% average similarity across 5 videos from 3 locations:

• —Michigan ↔ Michigan: 89-95% similarity
• —Michigan ↔ Florida: 92-94% similarity
• —Michigan ↔ California: 91-96% similarity
• —Florida ↔ California: ~94% similarity

Technologies

• —Python 3.12 with Gradio 4.20.0
• —Librosa for audio feature extraction
• —MFCC analysis for acoustic fingerprinting
• —Mathematical similarity scoring (cosine similarity + spectral features)

Built with Python • Librosa • Gradio • HuggingFace Spaces