Imagine a world where you walk up to a computer and sing the song fragment that has been
plaguing you since breakfast. The computer accepts your off-key singing, corrects your …

The increasing availability of music in digital format needs to be matched by the
development of tools for music accessing, filtering, classification, and retrieval. The research …

With Islands of Music we present a system which facilitates exploration of music libraries
without requiring manual genre classification. Given pieces of music in raw audio format we …

We describe a method that aligns polyphonic audio recordings of music to symbolic score
information in standard MIDI files without the difficult process of polyphonic transcription. By …

Human listeners are able to recognize structure in music through the perception of repetition
and other relationships within a piece of music. This work aims to automate the task of music …

This paper deals with the automatic generation of music audio summaries from signal
analysis without the use of any other information. The strategy employed here is to consider …

Getting computers to understand and process audio recordings in terms of their musical
content is a difficult challenge. We describe a method in which general, polyphonic audio …

With the advent of large musical archives the need to provide an organization of these
archives becomes eminent. While artist-based organizations or title indexes may help in …

Music Information Retrieval (MIR) is a multidisci-plinary research endeavor that strives to
develop innovative content-based searching schemes, novel interfaces, and evolving …

The availability of large music repositories calls for new ways of automatically organizing
and accessing them. While artist-based listings or title indexes may help in locating a …