A personal digital music library needs to be “agile”, that is, it needs to make it easy to capture and index material on the fly. A digital camera is a particularly effective...
This paper describes a method for melody detection in polyphonic musical signals. Our approach starts by obtaining a set of pitch candidates for each time frame, with recourse to ...
Common approaches to creating playlists are to randomly shuffle a collection (e.g. iPod shuffle) or manually select songs. In this paper we present and evaluate heuristics to ad...
The creation of huge databases coming from both restoration of existing analogue archives and new content is demanding fast and more and more reliable tools for content analysis a...
Source separation techniques like independent component analysis and the more recent non-negative matrix factorization are gaining widespread use for the monaural separation of in...