A variety of approaches exist to the automatic retrieval of the key part within a musical piece - its thumbnail. Most of these however do not use adequate modeling with respect to ...
We propose a novel technique for the automatic classification of vocal and non-vocal regions in an acoustic musical signal. Our technique uses a combination of harmonic content a...
We present a music information retrieval approach based on power laws. Research in cognitive science and neuroscience reveals connections between power laws, human cognition, and ...
In recent years the interest in melodic similarity has mushroomed mainly due to the increased importance of music information retrieval (MIR). A great number of similarity models ...
We present a novel algorithm for structural analysis of audio to detect repetitive patterns that are suitable for content-based audio information retrieval systems, since repetiti...