Detecting artists that can be considered as prototypes for particular genres or styles of music is an interesting task. In this paper, we present an approach that ranks artists ac...
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...
KernScores, an online library of musical data currently consisting of over 5 million notes, has been created to assist projects dealing with the computational analysis of musical ...
This paper describes a multi-pitch analysis method using specmurt analysis with iterative estimation of the quasioptimal common harmonic structure function. Specmurt analysis (Sag...
We describe a recursive algorithm to quickly compute the N nearest neighbors according to a similarity measure in a metric space. The algorithm exploits an intrinsic property of a...
Musical works in the Western art music tradition exist in a complex, inter-related web. Works that are derivative or part of another work are common; however, most music informati...
A method is presented for automatic transcription of sung melodic fragments to score-like representation, including metric values and pitch. A joint model for pitch, rhythm, segme...
Melodies provide an important conceptual summarization of polyphonic audio. The extraction of melodic content has practical applications ranging from content-based audio retrieval...
This paper presents a melody spotting system based on Variable Duration Hidden Markov Models (VDHMM’s), capable of locating monophonic melodies in a database of raw audio record...
Music information retrieval is characterized by a number of various user information needs. Systems are being developed that allow searchers to find melodies, rhythms, genres, an...