We present a metadata free system for the interaction with massive collections of music, the MusicSurfer. MusicSurfer automatically extracts descriptions related to instrumentatio...
Music thumbnailing (or music summarization) aims at finding the most representative part of a song, which can be used for web browsing, web searching and music recommendation. Thr...
Abstract. This paper presents first steps towards building a music information system like last.fm, but with the major difference that the data is automatically retrieved from the ...
Markus Schedl, Peter Knees, Tim Pohle, Gerhard Wid...
The quality of an information retrieval system heavily depends on its retrieval function, which returns a similarity measurement between the query and each document in the collect...
Manuals of technical devices are often not very helpful to the user. This study investigates the influence of spatial instructions versus linear step-by-step manuals on inexperien...