The singing voice is the oldest and most complex musical instrument. A familiar singer’s voice is easily recognizable for humans, even when hearing a song for the first time. O...
We describe the MusicMiner system for organizing large collections of music with databionic mining techniques. Low level audio features are extracted from the raw audio data on sh...
Music can be described best by music. However, current research in the design of user interfaces for the exploration of music collections has mainly focused on visualization aspec...
This paper describes a method for melody detection in polyphonic musical signals. Our approach starts by obtaining a set of pitch candidates for each time frame, with recourse to ...
Common approaches to creating playlists are to randomly shuffle a collection (e.g. iPod shuffle) or manually select songs. In this paper we present and evaluate heuristics to ad...