Beat tracking–ie deriving from a music audio signal a sequence of beat instants that might
correspond to when a human listener would tap his foot–involves satisfying two constraints …

Popular music is a key cultural expression that has captured listeners' attention for ages.
Many of the structural regularities underlying musical discourse are yet to be discovered …

Large music collections, ranging from thousands to millions of tracks, are unsuited to manual
searching, motivating the development of automatic search methods. When different …

Folie 1 Page 1 Paulus, Müller, Klapuri – Audio-Based Music Structure Analysis – ISMIR 2010
Jouni Paulus* (Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, Germany) Meinard Müller (Saarland …

Body movement is integral to both performance and perception of music, and this
dissertation suggests that we also think about music as movement. Based on ideas of …

Though practitioners have relied on tempo as a criterion to design in-store music, scant
attention has been devoted to the mode of musical selections, and no consideration has …

Record companies invest billions of dollars in new talent around the globe each year.
Gaining insight into what actually makes a hit song would provide tremendous benefits for …

Mood classification of music is an emerging domain of music information retrieval. In the
approach presented here features extracted from an audio file are used in combination with …

Large-scale cover song recognition involves calculating itemto-item similarities that can
accommodate differences in timing and tempo, rendering simple Euclidean measures …

Musical agents which can interact with human musicians in concert situations are a reality,
though the extent to which they themselves embody human-like capabilities can be called …