Music scene description project: Toward audio-based real-time music understanding

This paper reports a research project intended to build a real-time music-understanding system producing intuitively meaningful descriptions of real-world musical audio signals, such as the melody lines and chorus sections. This paper also introduces our efforts to add correct descriptions (metadata) to the pieces in a music database.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: ISMIR
• Authors: Masataka Goto
• Keywords: ISMIR 2003, Meaningful Descriptions, Melody Lines, Real-world Musical Audio