This paper describes a novel music playback interface, called Musicream, which lets a user unexpectedly come across various musical pieces similar to those liked by the user. With...
In this article we describe an optical recognition system for historic lute tablature prints that we have built with the aid of the Gamera toolkit for document analysis and recogn...
The paper presents a grounded theory analysis of 395 user responses to the survey question, “What is the worst song ever?” Important factors uncovered include: lyric quality, ...
Sally Jo Cunningham, J. Stephen Downie, David Bain...
This paper presents a novel drum transcription system for polyphonic music. The use of a band-wise harmonic/noise decomposition allows the suppression of the deterministic part of...
Unlike fixed-pitch instruments such as the piano, human singing can stray from a target pitch by as much as a semitone while still being perceived as a single fixed note. This p...
Tonality is an important aspect of musical structure. Detecting key of music is one of the major tasks in tonal analysis and will benefit semantic segmentation of music for indexi...
In this paper we give an overview of the Foafing the Music system. The system uses the Friend of a Friend (FOAF) and Rich Site Summary (RSS) vocabularies for recommending music t...
We are introducing novelty detection, i.e. the automatic identification of new or unknown data not covered by the training data, to the field of music information retrieval. Two...
Music classification continues to be an important component of music information retrieval research. An underutilized tool for improving the performance of classifiers is feature ...