Endowing machines with sensing capabilities similar to those of humans is a prevalent
quest in engineering and computer science. In the pursuit of making computers sense their …

Music information retrieval (MIR) is an emerging research area that receives growing
attention from both the research community and music industry. It addresses the problem of …

Application distribution platforms-or app stores-such as Google Play or Apple AppStore
allow users to submit feedback in form of ratings and reviews to downloaded applications. In …

The design of meaningful audio features is a key need to advance the state-of-the-art in
music emotion recognition (MER). This article presents a survey on the existing emotionally …

A proposal that an embodied cognition approach to music research—drawing on work in
computer science, psychology, brain science, and musicology—offers a promising …

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 …

The proliferation of MP3 players and the exploding amount of digital music content call for
novel ways of music organization and retrieval to meet the ever-increasing demand for easy …

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 …

An audio fingerprint is a compact content-based signature that summarizes an audio
recording. Audio Fingerprinting technologies have attracted attention since they allow the …

This chapter deals with signal processing for hearing aids. The primary goal of a hearing aid
is to improve the understanding of speech by an individual with a hearing impairment …