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Toward the Scientific Evaluation of Music Information Retrieval Systems
(Johns Hopkins University, 2003-10-26)
This paper outlines the findings-to-date of a project to assist in the efforts being made to establish a TREC-like evaluation paradigm within the Music Information Retrieval (MIR) research community. The findings and ...
Blind Clustering of Popular Music Recordings Based on Singer Voice Characteristics
(Johns Hopkins University, 2003-10-26)
This paper presents an effective technique for automatically clustering undocumented music recordings based on their associated singer. This serves as an indispensable step towards indexing and content-based information ...
Design Patterns in XML Music Representation
(Johns Hopkins University, 2003-10-26)
Design patterns attempt to formalize the discussion of recurring problems and their solutions. This paper introduces several XML design patterns and demonstrates their usefulness in the development of XML music representations. ...
Music identification by Leadsheets
(Johns Hopkins University, 2003-10-26)
Most experimental research on content-based automatic recognition and identification of musical documents is founded on statistical distribution of timbre or simple retrieval mechanisms like comparison of melodic segments. ...
The dangers of parsimony in query-by-humming applications
(Johns Hopkins University, 2003-10-26)
Query-by-humming systems attempt to address the needs of the non-expert user, for whom the most natural query format -- for the purposes of finding a tune, hook or melody of unknown providence -- is to sing it. While human ...
The MUSART Testbed for Query-By-Humming Evaluation
(Johns Hopkins University, 2003-10-26)
Evaluating music information retrieval systems is acknowledged to be a difficult problem. We have created a database and a software testbed for the systematic evaluation of various query-by-humming (QBH) search systems. ...
Effectiveness of HMM-Based Retrieval on Large Databases
(Johns Hopkins University, 2003-10-26)
We have investigated the performance of a hidden Markov model based QBH retrieval system on a large musical database. The database is synthetic, generated from statistics gleaned from our (smaller) database of musical ...
Geometric Algorithms for Transposition Invariant Content-Based Music Retrieval
(Johns Hopkins University, 2003-10-26)
We represent music as sets of points or sets of horizontal line segments in the Euclidean plane. Via this geometric representation we cast transposition invariant content-based music retrieval problems as ones of matching ...
A scalable Peer-to-Peer System for Music Content and Information Retrieval
(Johns Hopkins University, 2003-10-26)
Currently a large percentage of internet traffice consists of music files, typically stored in MP3 compressed audio format, shared and exchanged over Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks. Searching for music is performed by specifying ...
A Specialized Open Archives Initiative Harvester for Sheet Music: A Project Report and Examination of Issues
(Johns Hopkins University, 2003-10-26)
The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) Sheet Music Project is a consortium of institutions building OAI-compliant data providers, a metadata harvester, and a web-based service provider for digital sheet music collections. The ...