A Survey of Music Information Retrieval Systems

This survey paper provides an overview of content-based music information retrieval systems, both for audio and for symbolic music notation. Matching algorithms and indexing methods are briefly presented. The need for a TREC-like comparison of matching algorithms such as MIREX at ISMIR becomes clear from the high number of quite different methods which so far only have been used on different data collections. We placed the systems on a map showing the tasks and users for which they are suitable, and we find that existing content-based retrieval systems fail to cover a gap between the very general and the very specific retrieval tasks.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: ISMIR
• Authors: Rainer Typke, Frans Wiering, Remco C. Veltkamp
• Keywords: Content-based Retrieval Systems, Information Retrieval, Information Retrieval Systems, ISMIR 2005, Retrieval Systems