At its heart, music information retrieval is characterized by the need to find the similarity between pieces of music. However, “similar” does not mean “the same”. Theref...
In this paper, we study the use of spectral patterns to represent the characteristics of the rhythm of an audio signal. A function representing the position of onsets over time is...
Selecting the ‘right’ songs and putting them in the ‘right’ order are key to a great music listening or dance experience. ‘SatisFly’ is an interactive playlist generat...
We present a study on the importance of psycho-acoustic transformations for effective audio feature calculation. From the results, both crucial and problematic parts of the algori...
This paper describes a fast audio detection method for specific audio retrieval in the AV stream. The method is a histogram matching algorithm based on structural and perceptual f...
This paper describes a hierarchical approach for fast audio stream segmentation and classification. With this approach, the audio stream is firstly segmented into audio clips by M...
In the “query-by-humming” problem, we attempt to retrieve a specific song from a target set based on a sung query. Recent evaluations of query-by-humming systems show that th...
Finding the best matching database target to a melodic query has been of great interest in the music IR world. The string alignment paradigm works well for this task when comparin...
Understanding and meeting the needs of a broad range of music users across different cultures and languages are central in designing a global music digital library. This explorato...
Jin Ha Lee, J. Stephen Downie, Sally Jo Cunningham
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...