The creation of huge databases coming from both restoration of existing analogue archives and new content is demanding fast and more and more reliable tools for content analysis a...
Rhythm, beat and meter are key concepts of music in general. Many efforts had been made in the last years to automatically extract beat and meter from a piece of music given eithe...
We present a metadata free system for the interaction with massive collections of music, the MusicSurfer. MusicSurfer automatically extracts descriptions related to instrumentatio...
High-Level music descriptors are key ingredients for music information retrieval systems. Although there is a long tradition in extracting information from acoustic signals, the f...
The realisation and evaluation of a musical key extraction algorithm that works directly on raw audio data is presented. Its implementation is based on models of human auditory pe...