This paper describes the design policy and specifications of the RWC Music Database, a copyright-cleared music database (DB) compiled specifically for research purposes. Shared ...
Music librarians and cataloguers have traditionally created indexes that allow users to access musical works using standard reference information, such as the name of the composer...
Most research into music information retrieval thus far has only examined music from the western tradition. However, music of other origins often conforms to different tuning syst...
Most music processing attempts to focus on one particular feature or structural element such as pitch, beat location, tempo, or genre. This hierarchical approach, in which music i...
In research on musical audio-mining, annotated music databases are needed which allow the development of computational tools that extract from the musical audiostream the kind of ...
Micheline Lesaffre, Marc Leman, Bernard De Baets, ...