Abstract. The main area of work in computer music related to information systems is known as music information retrieval (MIR). Databases containing musical information can be clas...
We describe an acoustic chord transcription system that uses symbolic data to train hidden Markov models and gives best-of-class frame-level recognition results. We avoid the extre...
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...
The modeling of music as a language is a core issue for a wide range of applications such as polyphonic music retrieval, automatic style identification, audio to symbolic music tr...
We present a metadata free system for the interaction with massive collections of music, the MusicSurfer. MusicSurfer automatically extracts descriptions related to instrumentatio...