Content-based music information retrieval: Current directions and future challenges

MA Casey, R Veltkamp, M Goto, M Leman… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The steep rise in music downloading over CD sales has created a major shift in the music
industry away from physical media formats and towards online products and services. Music …

[BOOK][B] Speaker recognition

H Beigi, H Beigi - 2011 - Springer
The objective of the enrollment process is to modify (adapt) a speaker-independent model
into one that best characterizes the target speaker's vocal tract characteristics. Depending …

Instrument-specific harmonic atoms for mid-level music representation

P Leveau, E Vincent, G Richard… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Several studies have pointed out the need for accurate mid-level representations of music
signals for information retrieval and signal processing purposes. In this paper, we propose a …

[PDF][PDF] Automatic musical instrument recognition from polyphonic music audio signals

F Fuhrmann - 2012 - Citeseer
Facing the rapidly growing amount of digital media, the need for an effective data
management is challenging technology. In this context, we approach the problem of …

Computational models of similarity for drum samples

E Pampalk, P Herrera, M Goto - IEEE transactions on audio …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we optimize and evaluate computational models of similarity for sounds from
the same instrument class. We investigate four instrument classes: bass drums, snare …

[PDF][PDF] Automatic Instrument Recognition in a Polyphonic Mixture Using Sparse Representations.

P Leveau, D Sodoyer, L Daudet - ISMIR, 2007 - archives.ismir.net
In this paper, we introduce a method to address automatic instrument recognition in
polyphonic music. It is based on the decomposition of the music signal with …

Changing timbre and phrase in existing musical performances as you like: manipulations of single part using harmonic and inharmonic models

N Yasuraoka, T Abe, K Itoyama, T Takahashi… - Proceedings of the 17th …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
This paper presents a new music manipulation method that can change the timbre and
phrases of an existing instrumental performance in a polyphonic sound mixture. This method …

Discriminating between pitched sources in music audio

MR Every - IEEE transactions on audio, speech, and language …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Though humans find it relatively easy to identify and/or isolate different sources within
polyphonic music, the emulation of this ability by a computer is a challenging task, and one …

Instrumentation analysis and identification of polyphonic music using beat-synchronous feature integration and fuzzy clustering

SC Pei, NT Hsu - … Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a music instrumentation analysis and identification method is proposed. In
contrast to existing systems, it tries to identify the whole instrument set in polyphonic music …

Mid-level representations of musical audio signals for music information retrieval

T Kitahara - Advances in Music Information Retrieval, 2010 - Springer
In this chapter, we introduce mid-level representations of music for content-based music
information retrieval (MIR). Although low-level features such as spectral and cepstral …