We present a study on the importance of psycho-acoustic transformations for effective audio feature calculation. From the results, both crucial and problematic parts of the algori...
In the automatic classification of music many different segmentations of the audio signal have been used to calculate features. These include individual short frames (23 ms), lon...
This paper describes the use of motif contour classes for efficient retrieval of melodies from music collections. Instead of extracting incipits or themes, complete monophonic pi...
The use of HMM (Hidden Markov Models) for speech recognition has been successful for various applications in the past decades. However, the use of continuous HMM (CHMM) for melody...
In this paper we propose a text represention for musical chord symbols that is simple and intuitive for musically trained individuals to write and understand, yet highly structure...
Christopher Harte, Mark B. Sandler, Samer A. Abdal...