This seminar report summarizes query by humming technology. The basic architecture involves extracting melodic information from a hummed input, transcribing it, and comparing it to melodic contours in a database. Challenges include imperfect user queries and accurately capturing pitches from hums. Popular query by humming applications include Shazam, SoundHound, and Midomi. The report also discusses file formats like WAV and MIDI, and the Parsons code algorithm for representing melodies.
Query By humming - Music retrieval technologyShital Kat
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Multimedia system, Architecture & DatabasesHarshita Ved
The document discusses multimedia databases and multimedia database management systems. It defines multimedia databases as collections of related multimedia data types including text, images, audio, and video. It also describes the additional metadata that must be managed along with the actual multimedia data. Multimedia database management systems provide support for different data formats and facilitate creation, storage, retrieval, querying, and control of multimedia data.
This document provides an introduction to database management systems (DBMS). It defines a DBMS as a systematic way to create, retrieve, update, and manage data. A DBMS allows data like text, numbers, images, videos, and sounds to be collected and stored together as a database. Examples of DBMS applications include telephone systems for contact details, Facebook for user information and connections, online shopping, and supermarket inventory systems. The document also discusses traditional databases, multimedia databases, and geographic information systems.
This document discusses personal digital assistants (PDAs). It begins by defining a PDA as a portable, pocket-sized organizer and computer. It then discusses some of the early PDA manufacturers like Apple and how their features have developed over time from early touchscreen and memory card models to today's wireless connected smart devices. The document also outlines some common PDA applications like calendars, notepads, address books and games as well as their use by medical, scientific and other mobile professionals. It concludes with some limitations of early PDAs related to size and data input/output speeds.
Database system concepts and architectureJafar Nesargi
This document discusses database system concepts and architecture. It covers data models, schemas, and instances. There are three categories of data models: high-level conceptual models, low-level physical models, and representational models. Schemas describe the database design while instances represent the actual data. The three schema architecture separates the internal, conceptual, and external schemas. Database languages include DDL for design, DML for manipulation, and others. DBMSs provide various interfaces and operate within a database system environment.
The document summarizes Sixth Sense technology, a wearable gestural interface that augments physical reality. It consists of a camera, projector, and mirror coupled in a pendant, along with colored markers. The camera tracks hand gestures to interact with projected information on surfaces. Applications include making calls, getting maps/product info, and more, using intuitive hand gestures. Sixth Sense bridges the physical and digital world through natural interactions.
Query By humming - Music retrieval technologyShital Kat
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Multimedia system, Architecture & DatabasesHarshita Ved
The document discusses multimedia databases and multimedia database management systems. It defines multimedia databases as collections of related multimedia data types including text, images, audio, and video. It also describes the additional metadata that must be managed along with the actual multimedia data. Multimedia database management systems provide support for different data formats and facilitate creation, storage, retrieval, querying, and control of multimedia data.
This document provides an introduction to database management systems (DBMS). It defines a DBMS as a systematic way to create, retrieve, update, and manage data. A DBMS allows data like text, numbers, images, videos, and sounds to be collected and stored together as a database. Examples of DBMS applications include telephone systems for contact details, Facebook for user information and connections, online shopping, and supermarket inventory systems. The document also discusses traditional databases, multimedia databases, and geographic information systems.
This document discusses personal digital assistants (PDAs). It begins by defining a PDA as a portable, pocket-sized organizer and computer. It then discusses some of the early PDA manufacturers like Apple and how their features have developed over time from early touchscreen and memory card models to today's wireless connected smart devices. The document also outlines some common PDA applications like calendars, notepads, address books and games as well as their use by medical, scientific and other mobile professionals. It concludes with some limitations of early PDAs related to size and data input/output speeds.
Database system concepts and architectureJafar Nesargi
This document discusses database system concepts and architecture. It covers data models, schemas, and instances. There are three categories of data models: high-level conceptual models, low-level physical models, and representational models. Schemas describe the database design while instances represent the actual data. The three schema architecture separates the internal, conceptual, and external schemas. Database languages include DDL for design, DML for manipulation, and others. DBMSs provide various interfaces and operate within a database system environment.
The document summarizes Sixth Sense technology, a wearable gestural interface that augments physical reality. It consists of a camera, projector, and mirror coupled in a pendant, along with colored markers. The camera tracks hand gestures to interact with projected information on surfaces. Applications include making calls, getting maps/product info, and more, using intuitive hand gestures. Sixth Sense bridges the physical and digital world through natural interactions.
The document discusses key aspects of human-computer interaction (HCI), including its importance, elements, interaction styles, input and output devices, and eye tracking techniques. HCI aims to design human-centered systems by understanding users' visual, intellectual, motor, and memory capabilities. Serious HCI research promises to fundamentally change computing by creating excellent user interfaces. Understanding users and conducting evaluations are important for practitioners. Common interaction styles include command lines, menus, and WIMP interfaces. Input devices include keyboards while outputs include displays, and humans interact visually, auditorily, and through touch. Various eye tracking methods aim to measure gaze, such as electrooculography and video-based techniques. HCI is an interdisciplinary
Chapter 8 - Multimedia Storage and RetrievalPratik Pradhan
This is the subject slides for the module MMS2401 - Multimedia System and Communication taught in Shepherd College of Media Technology, Affiliated with Purbanchal University.
Human-Computer Interaction is a discipline concerned with the design, evaluation and implementation of interactive computing systems for human use and with the study of major phenomena surrounding them” -ACM/IEEE
Multi-agent systems applied in Health CareAntonio Moreno
This document discusses the application of multi-agent systems in healthcare. It provides an overview of some projects developed by ITAKA, including a web-based platform for home care services and a system for managing clinical guidelines. It also outlines some research challenges in using agents for healthcare, such as standardization, security, and integration with existing systems. Overall, the document argues that agents are well-suited for coordinating distributed healthcare tasks and knowledge, but challenges remain in adoption due to technical and organizational issues.
The document discusses the history of human-computer interaction paradigms from batch processing to ubiquitous computing. It outlines several paradigm shifts including from batch processing to timesharing, networking, graphical displays, personal computing, direct manipulation interfaces, hypertext, multimodality, computer supported cooperative work, the World Wide Web, agent-based interfaces, and ubiquitous computing embedded in the physical world. The paradigms represent new perceptions of the human-computer relationship and technologies that arrive to create interactive systems with improved usability.
DOS stands for Disk Operating System. It is used to manage secondary storage devices like hard disks and floppy disks by organizing files in a hierarchical directory structure and allocating system resources. Some examples of early DOS systems include DOS/360 for IBM mainframes and DOS for DEC PDP-11 minicomputers. The most well-known DOS was MS-DOS, developed by Microsoft for the IBM PC. DOS allows naming files with a primary eight-character name and secondary three-character extension separated by a period. It provides commands to manage files and directories, hardware devices, and system resources.
A multimedia database stores different types of media like text, images, audio, and video. It differs from a standard database by storing media internally rather than just text and numbers. Multimedia databases can be linked or embedded, with linked databases having smaller sizes but slower retrieval and embedded databases having larger sizes but faster retrieval. Data is stored in three parts - raw data, registering data, and descriptive data. Multimedia databases have applications in digital libraries, news, video on demand, music, maps, marketing, and more.
The document discusses key concepts related to databases and database management systems. It defines a database as a collection of organized data and a database management system as a computer program that allows for creating, accessing, managing and controlling databases. It describes three common data models - relational, network and hierarchical - and explains some fundamental database concepts like tables, keys, relations and normalization.
This document provides an overview of the psychology of human-computer interaction. It begins by outlining the learning outcomes, which are to understand why psychologists should be involved in design, consider elements of HCI in relation to psychology, and how new technologies impact people. It then provides definitions of human-computer interaction and discusses relevant disciplines like computer science, psychology, and ergonomics. Examples of incidents involving poor interface design leading to issues like information overload are provided. The document also discusses goals of HCI like usability, effectiveness and different roles in the field like interaction designers.
The document provides an overview of databases and their advantages over traditional file systems. It discusses key database concepts like data hierarchy, entities and attributes, database models, and components. The main points are:
- Databases organize related data centrally for efficient data sharing and management, avoiding data duplication found in file systems.
- Key concepts include data hierarchy, database components, architecture with three logical levels, and entity-attribute modeling.
- Popular database models include hierarchical, network, and relational models, with relational being most common today.
- Database languages like DDL and DML manipulate and query the database, while the data dictionary documents the stored data.
This document defines key concepts related to computer files. It discusses:
1. File organization types including serial, sequential, direct access, and indexed sequential. Sequential files store records in key sequence while direct access allows direct retrieval by calculating a record's address.
2. Methods of accessing files which can be serial, sequential, or direct/random.
3. Criteria for classifying files as master, transactional, or reference files based on their content, organization, and storage medium.
4. An assignment to research operating procedures for computer data processing.
This document summarizes key aspects of a database management system (DBMS). It defines a DBMS as software that allows access to data contained in a database. The document outlines advantages like reduction of data redundancy, shared data access, security controls, and integrity checks. Disadvantages mentioned include costs, processing overhead, and complexity of backup/recovery. It also describes the three levels of architecture in a DBMS - the external view seen by users, the conceptual data model, and the internal view of physical storage.
The document discusses database management systems. It defines a database as an organized collection of stored data that can be accessed electronically. A database management system (DBMS) is software that allows users and applications to capture, analyze, and interact with a database. A DBMS performs tasks like data definition, updates, retrieval, and administration. It stores data on dedicated database servers for security, reliability, and high-performance access and management of the stored data. A DBMS provides multiple logical views of the database data for different user groups and roles.
The document discusses operating systems and their functions. It defines an operating system as the most important program that runs on a computer and performs basic tasks like managing system resources and running applications. The major functions of operating systems are providing an interface to the user, managing system resources, security and access rights, running applications, process management, memory management, and acting as an interface between the computer hardware and software. It also discusses different types of operating systems like real-time operating systems, distributed operating systems, Linux, Windows, and the graphical user interface.
This document discusses hardware and software. It defines hardware as the physical components of a computer and software as programs and procedures that perform tasks. It describes two main types of software: system software and application software. System software manages computer hardware and includes operating systems, translators, and utility programs. Application software performs specific tasks for users, like Microsoft Office programs. It also discusses programming languages used to write programs and translators like compilers and interpreters that convert programs to machine language for execution.
This document discusses different types of computer software and programming languages. It describes application software, which performs specific tasks for users, and system software, which acts as an interface between users, applications, and hardware. Some key points covered include:
- Application software includes commercial/packaged software, public domain, shareware, freeware, custom software, and different types like entertainment, personal, educational, and productivity software.
- System software includes the operating system, device drivers, and utility programs. The operating system loads at startup and manages memory, security, tasks, files, and input/output between components. Device drivers control peripheral devices.
- Programming languages and compilers/translators are also discussed as they
HCI is the study of how humans interact with computers and how computer systems are designed for successful human interaction. A key aspect of HCI is user interfaces, which allow interaction between users and computers. Good HCI principles are important for designing intuitive systems that are usable for all people regardless of ability or training. HCI considers aspects like usability, accessibility, and how people interact with technology in both personal and professional contexts. Future developments in HCI include more immersive technologies like virtual and augmented reality as well as more integrated, flexible, and easy-to-use interfaces.
This document presents information on primary and secondary storage devices. It discusses random access memory (RAM), which includes dynamic RAM and static RAM, as the primary storage device. It also discusses various types of read-only memory (ROM) like PROM, EPROM, and EEPROM. The document outlines different secondary storage devices such as hard disks, floppy disks, compact disks, tape drives, and USB storage. It provides details on the storage capacity, usage, and key features of each secondary storage type.
The document discusses developing a model to compose monophonic world music using deep learning techniques. It proposes using a bi-axial recurrent neural network with one axis representing time and the other representing musical notes. The network will be trained on a dataset of MIDI files describing pitch, timing, and velocity of notes. It will also incorporate information from music theory on scales, chords, and other elements extracted from sheet music files. The goal is to generate unique musical sequences while adhering to music theory rules. The model aims to address the problem of composing long durations of background music for public spaces in an automated way.
This document presents a device called the Tonalyzer, which provides a visual representation of tone to help musicians understand and achieve their desired tone. The device uses audio processing and Fourier analysis to analyze the frequency components of an input sound and display them graphically in real-time. It also allows users to save tone profiles for later comparison. An extensive user survey found that most target users are experienced musicians who struggle to describe tone and would benefit from a device to analyze and match tones. The key user specifications for the Tonalyzer are audio input, an interactive visual display, tone storage capabilities, durability for portable use, and long battery life to support musician needs.
The document discusses key aspects of human-computer interaction (HCI), including its importance, elements, interaction styles, input and output devices, and eye tracking techniques. HCI aims to design human-centered systems by understanding users' visual, intellectual, motor, and memory capabilities. Serious HCI research promises to fundamentally change computing by creating excellent user interfaces. Understanding users and conducting evaluations are important for practitioners. Common interaction styles include command lines, menus, and WIMP interfaces. Input devices include keyboards while outputs include displays, and humans interact visually, auditorily, and through touch. Various eye tracking methods aim to measure gaze, such as electrooculography and video-based techniques. HCI is an interdisciplinary
Chapter 8 - Multimedia Storage and RetrievalPratik Pradhan
This is the subject slides for the module MMS2401 - Multimedia System and Communication taught in Shepherd College of Media Technology, Affiliated with Purbanchal University.
Human-Computer Interaction is a discipline concerned with the design, evaluation and implementation of interactive computing systems for human use and with the study of major phenomena surrounding them” -ACM/IEEE
Multi-agent systems applied in Health CareAntonio Moreno
This document discusses the application of multi-agent systems in healthcare. It provides an overview of some projects developed by ITAKA, including a web-based platform for home care services and a system for managing clinical guidelines. It also outlines some research challenges in using agents for healthcare, such as standardization, security, and integration with existing systems. Overall, the document argues that agents are well-suited for coordinating distributed healthcare tasks and knowledge, but challenges remain in adoption due to technical and organizational issues.
The document discusses the history of human-computer interaction paradigms from batch processing to ubiquitous computing. It outlines several paradigm shifts including from batch processing to timesharing, networking, graphical displays, personal computing, direct manipulation interfaces, hypertext, multimodality, computer supported cooperative work, the World Wide Web, agent-based interfaces, and ubiquitous computing embedded in the physical world. The paradigms represent new perceptions of the human-computer relationship and technologies that arrive to create interactive systems with improved usability.
DOS stands for Disk Operating System. It is used to manage secondary storage devices like hard disks and floppy disks by organizing files in a hierarchical directory structure and allocating system resources. Some examples of early DOS systems include DOS/360 for IBM mainframes and DOS for DEC PDP-11 minicomputers. The most well-known DOS was MS-DOS, developed by Microsoft for the IBM PC. DOS allows naming files with a primary eight-character name and secondary three-character extension separated by a period. It provides commands to manage files and directories, hardware devices, and system resources.
A multimedia database stores different types of media like text, images, audio, and video. It differs from a standard database by storing media internally rather than just text and numbers. Multimedia databases can be linked or embedded, with linked databases having smaller sizes but slower retrieval and embedded databases having larger sizes but faster retrieval. Data is stored in three parts - raw data, registering data, and descriptive data. Multimedia databases have applications in digital libraries, news, video on demand, music, maps, marketing, and more.
The document discusses key concepts related to databases and database management systems. It defines a database as a collection of organized data and a database management system as a computer program that allows for creating, accessing, managing and controlling databases. It describes three common data models - relational, network and hierarchical - and explains some fundamental database concepts like tables, keys, relations and normalization.
This document provides an overview of the psychology of human-computer interaction. It begins by outlining the learning outcomes, which are to understand why psychologists should be involved in design, consider elements of HCI in relation to psychology, and how new technologies impact people. It then provides definitions of human-computer interaction and discusses relevant disciplines like computer science, psychology, and ergonomics. Examples of incidents involving poor interface design leading to issues like information overload are provided. The document also discusses goals of HCI like usability, effectiveness and different roles in the field like interaction designers.
The document provides an overview of databases and their advantages over traditional file systems. It discusses key database concepts like data hierarchy, entities and attributes, database models, and components. The main points are:
- Databases organize related data centrally for efficient data sharing and management, avoiding data duplication found in file systems.
- Key concepts include data hierarchy, database components, architecture with three logical levels, and entity-attribute modeling.
- Popular database models include hierarchical, network, and relational models, with relational being most common today.
- Database languages like DDL and DML manipulate and query the database, while the data dictionary documents the stored data.
This document defines key concepts related to computer files. It discusses:
1. File organization types including serial, sequential, direct access, and indexed sequential. Sequential files store records in key sequence while direct access allows direct retrieval by calculating a record's address.
2. Methods of accessing files which can be serial, sequential, or direct/random.
3. Criteria for classifying files as master, transactional, or reference files based on their content, organization, and storage medium.
4. An assignment to research operating procedures for computer data processing.
This document summarizes key aspects of a database management system (DBMS). It defines a DBMS as software that allows access to data contained in a database. The document outlines advantages like reduction of data redundancy, shared data access, security controls, and integrity checks. Disadvantages mentioned include costs, processing overhead, and complexity of backup/recovery. It also describes the three levels of architecture in a DBMS - the external view seen by users, the conceptual data model, and the internal view of physical storage.
The document discusses database management systems. It defines a database as an organized collection of stored data that can be accessed electronically. A database management system (DBMS) is software that allows users and applications to capture, analyze, and interact with a database. A DBMS performs tasks like data definition, updates, retrieval, and administration. It stores data on dedicated database servers for security, reliability, and high-performance access and management of the stored data. A DBMS provides multiple logical views of the database data for different user groups and roles.
The document discusses operating systems and their functions. It defines an operating system as the most important program that runs on a computer and performs basic tasks like managing system resources and running applications. The major functions of operating systems are providing an interface to the user, managing system resources, security and access rights, running applications, process management, memory management, and acting as an interface between the computer hardware and software. It also discusses different types of operating systems like real-time operating systems, distributed operating systems, Linux, Windows, and the graphical user interface.
This document discusses hardware and software. It defines hardware as the physical components of a computer and software as programs and procedures that perform tasks. It describes two main types of software: system software and application software. System software manages computer hardware and includes operating systems, translators, and utility programs. Application software performs specific tasks for users, like Microsoft Office programs. It also discusses programming languages used to write programs and translators like compilers and interpreters that convert programs to machine language for execution.
This document discusses different types of computer software and programming languages. It describes application software, which performs specific tasks for users, and system software, which acts as an interface between users, applications, and hardware. Some key points covered include:
- Application software includes commercial/packaged software, public domain, shareware, freeware, custom software, and different types like entertainment, personal, educational, and productivity software.
- System software includes the operating system, device drivers, and utility programs. The operating system loads at startup and manages memory, security, tasks, files, and input/output between components. Device drivers control peripheral devices.
- Programming languages and compilers/translators are also discussed as they
HCI is the study of how humans interact with computers and how computer systems are designed for successful human interaction. A key aspect of HCI is user interfaces, which allow interaction between users and computers. Good HCI principles are important for designing intuitive systems that are usable for all people regardless of ability or training. HCI considers aspects like usability, accessibility, and how people interact with technology in both personal and professional contexts. Future developments in HCI include more immersive technologies like virtual and augmented reality as well as more integrated, flexible, and easy-to-use interfaces.
This document presents information on primary and secondary storage devices. It discusses random access memory (RAM), which includes dynamic RAM and static RAM, as the primary storage device. It also discusses various types of read-only memory (ROM) like PROM, EPROM, and EEPROM. The document outlines different secondary storage devices such as hard disks, floppy disks, compact disks, tape drives, and USB storage. It provides details on the storage capacity, usage, and key features of each secondary storage type.
The document discusses developing a model to compose monophonic world music using deep learning techniques. It proposes using a bi-axial recurrent neural network with one axis representing time and the other representing musical notes. The network will be trained on a dataset of MIDI files describing pitch, timing, and velocity of notes. It will also incorporate information from music theory on scales, chords, and other elements extracted from sheet music files. The goal is to generate unique musical sequences while adhering to music theory rules. The model aims to address the problem of composing long durations of background music for public spaces in an automated way.
This document presents a device called the Tonalyzer, which provides a visual representation of tone to help musicians understand and achieve their desired tone. The device uses audio processing and Fourier analysis to analyze the frequency components of an input sound and display them graphically in real-time. It also allows users to save tone profiles for later comparison. An extensive user survey found that most target users are experienced musicians who struggle to describe tone and would benefit from a device to analyze and match tones. The key user specifications for the Tonalyzer are audio input, an interactive visual display, tone storage capabilities, durability for portable use, and long battery life to support musician needs.
The document discusses speech recognition and voice recognition. It covers what voice is, the components of sound, why voices are different, classification of speech sounds, the speech production process, what voice recognition is, automatic speech recognition (ASR), types of ASR systems including speaker-dependent and speaker-independent, approaches to speech recognition including template matching and statistical approaches, and the process of speech recognition.
Streaming Audio Using MPEG–7 Audio Spectrum Envelope to Enable Self-similarit...TELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
The ability of traditional packet level Forward Error Correction approaches can limit errors for
small sporadic network losses but when dropouts of large portions occur listening quality becomes an
issue. Services such as audio-on-demand drastically increase the loads on networks therefore new, robust
and highly efficient coding algorithms are necessary. One method overlooked to date, which can work
alongside existing audio compression schemes, is that which takes account of the semantics and natural
repetition of music through meta-data tagging. Similarity detection within polyphonic audio has presented
problematic challenges within the field of Music Information Retrieval. We present a system which works
at the content level thus rendering it applicable in existing streaming services. Using the MPEG–7 Audio
Spectrum Envelope (ASE) gives features for extraction and combined with k-means clustering enables
self-similarity to be performed within polyphonic audio.
This document discusses the use of artificial intelligence in organized sound as surveyed in the journal Organised Sound. It provides an overview of key AI technologies like Auto-Tune audio processing that can correct pitch and organize sound. Applications discussed include general sound classification, open sound control for music networking, and time-frequency representations for sound analysis and resynthesis. The document also outlines recent research on intelligent composer assistants, responsive instruments, and recognition of musical sounds. Finally, it discusses the future of AI in organizing sound through planning and machine learning.
Application of Recurrent Neural Networks paired with LSTM - Music GenerationIRJET Journal
This document discusses using recurrent neural networks and long short-term memory networks to generate music. It notes that producing music can be expensive, but an AI system could provide a cheaper alternative for businesses. The system would be trained on music theory concepts like notes, chords, scales and keys to understand harmonious combinations. A web-based platform could then generate custom music based on user selections and input the trained machine learning model. The goal is an affordable way for companies to automatically produce unique music for branding and promotions.
This document describes a student project to create an algorithm that generates a short music playlist based on one or more seed songs. The algorithm is based on a previous published method called AutoDJ that uses Gaussian process regression with a kernel function to predict a user's preference for additional songs based on attributes of the seed songs. The key aspects of the student's algorithm include using a kernel that is trained on song attribute data to learn song similarities, and generating a playlist sorted by predicted user preference for each song. The student's model and data differ from the original AutoDJ method primarily due to having a mix of continuous and categorical song attributes rather than purely categorical data.
This document provides an overview of a dissertation on Emofy, a classical music recommender system. The summary includes:
- Emofy is a music recommender system that recommends classical Indian music based on the user's mood by classifying moods and associating different ragas and genres with different moods.
- The dissertation discusses collecting and labeling a dataset of classical music, extracting features to classify mood, and using machine learning algorithms like random forests to achieve over 90% accuracy in mood classification.
- The recommended system uses mood classification to map users to appropriate ragas and playlists of classical music tracks on Spotify aimed at therapeutic applications.
The document discusses how new multimedia technologies have changed musical culture and practices. It outlines how the music industry has shifted from CDs to online delivery and DAW production. It also discusses new trends in music consumption like music discovery sites, more passionate fans, the influence of celebrity culture, and openness to brand sponsorships. New content models are emerging like remixes, mashups, and live DJ sets. Research topics discussed include new methods of music representation, interaction rules for group experiences, automatic structure discovery, and characterizing aesthetics and emotions.
How Can The Essen Associative Code Be Usedlahtrumpet
The Essen Associative Code (EsAC) database and associated software tools can be used for musical analysis, sight-singing, analyzing recorded and printed music, and researching melodies. The Humdrum Toolkit is free software that allows users to encode music data in the EsAC format and analyze things like pitch contours, intervals, and phrase repetition. David Huron used the Humdrum Toolkit and EsAC database to analyze folksong melodies and found they tend to rise and fall on average. The Themefinder system allows searching the EsAC database to find musical examples for further analysis and comparison.
How Can The Essen Associative Code Be Usedlahtrumpet
The Essen Associative Code (EsAC) database and associated software tools can be used for musical analysis, sight-singing, analyzing recorded and printed music, and researching melodies. The Humdrum Toolkit is free software that allows users to encode music data in the EsAC format and analyze things like pitch contours, intervals, and phrase repetition. David Huron used the Humdrum Toolkit and EsAC database to analyze folksong melodies and found they tend to rise and fall on average. The Themefinder system allows searching the EsAC database to find musical examples for further analysis and comparison.
Jordan Smith has produced a glossary of terms related to sound design and production for computer games. The glossary contains definitions for terms like Foley Artistry, Sound Libraries, audio file formats like .wav and .mp3, limitations like RAM and mono audio, recording systems such as CDs and MIDI, sampling constraints like bit depth and sample rate, and tools like plug-ins and MIDI keyboards. Jordan provides context for each term and how it relates to his own production work where possible.
The document is a glossary created by a student, Steph Hawkins, for a unit on sound design and production. It contains definitions for over 15 key terms related to sound design methodology, file formats, audio limitations, and audio recording systems. For each term, Steph provides a short internet-researched definition and URL source, and also describes how the term relates to their own production practice.
Toward an Understanding of Lyrics-viewing Behavior While Listening to Music o...Kosetsu Tsukuda
本ポスターは2021年11月7日~12日に開催された「22nd International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2021)」の発表資料です。
発表した論文のPDFは以下のURLから閲覧できます。
http://ktsukuda.me/wp-content/uploads/ISMIR2021_Lyrics_tsukuda.pdf
The document is a glossary of terms related to sound design and production for computer games. It contains definitions for terms like Foley artistry, sound libraries, audio file formats like .wav and .mp3, audio limitations involving hardware, recording systems, sampling, and more. For each term, it provides a short definition from an online source as well as any relevance to the author's own production practice.
The document proposes developing a complete music player application that integrates multiple music-related features into a single application. It discusses developing features like emotion recognition using neural networks to play music matching a user's mood, song mixing, YouTube linking to related music videos, karaoke, and lyrics display. The application would use technologies like Android Studio, MongoDB database, and APIs from other applications to consolidate functions currently found across multiple separate apps. This would provide a more unified music experience for users.
MLConf2013: Teaching Computer to Listen to MusicEric Battenberg
The document discusses machine listening and music information retrieval. It introduces common techniques in music auto-tagging like extracting features from audio spectrograms and training classifiers. Deep learning approaches that learn features directly from data are showing promise. Recurrent neural networks are discussed for modeling temporal dependencies in music, with an example of applying them to onset detection. The talk concludes with an example of live drum transcription using drum modeling, onset detection, spectrogram slicing and non-negative source separation.
The document provides an overview of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) techniques for analyzing music with computers. It discusses common MIR tasks like genre/mood classification, beat tracking, and music similarity. Recent approaches to music auto-tagging using deep learning are highlighted, such as using neural networks to learn features directly from audio rather than relying on hand-designed features. Recurrent neural networks are presented as a way to model temporal dependencies in music for applications like onset detection. As an example, the document describes a system for live drum transcription that uses onset detection, spectrogram slicing, and non-negative matrix factorization for source separation to detect drum activations in real-time performance audio.
The document describes an Android application called AllDup Music that identifies and removes duplicate music files from a user's phone. It does this by comparing the frequency of music files using a minhashing algorithm to detect duplicates, then prompts the user to delete any redundant files. The application aims to save storage space by eliminating duplicate music files that may have different names but identical content.
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The document discusses sentiment analysis and opinion mining. It describes opinion mining as the process of analyzing text written in a natural language to classify it as positive, negative, or neutral based on the expressed sentiments. It outlines different levels of opinion mining including document, sentence, and aspect levels. It provides details on the typical architecture of an opinion mining system, including modules for preprocessing, part-of-speech tagging, aspect extraction, opinion identification, and orientation.
The document discusses big data and Hadoop as a framework for processing large datasets. It describes how Hadoop uses HDFS for storage and MapReduce for parallel processing. HDFS uses a master/slave architecture with a NameNode and DataNodes. MapReduce jobs are managed by a JobTracker and executed on TaskTrackers. The document provides an example of using MapReduce to find common friends between users. It concludes that Hadoop is capable of solving big data challenges through scalable and fault-tolerant distributed processing.
Big data processing using - Hadoop TechnologyShital Kat
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NAME: SHITAL KATKAR
TOPIC : Query By Humming
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INDEX
1 Introduction
1.1 Query By Humming
2 Basic Architecture
2.1 Extraction
2.2 Transcription
2.3 Comparison
3 Applications
3.1 Shazam
3.2 Sound-Hound
3.3 Midomi
3.4 Musipedia
4 The art of Singing
4.1 Challenges
5 File Formats
5.1 Wav File format
5.2 MIDI File format
6 System Architecture
6.1 Wav to MIDI conversion
7 Parson Code algorithm
7.1 Rules
7.2 Advantages
8 Benchmarking MIR System
8.1 Online MIR System
8.1.1 CatFind
8.1.2 MelDex
8.1.3 MelodyHound
8.1.4 ThemeFinder
8.1.5 Music Retrieval Demo
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8.2 Comparison of MIR System
8.3 Evaluation Issues
8.4 Subjective and objective testing
9 Conclusion
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1. INTRODUCTION
Many people often remember as short tidbit of a song but fail to recall the song's name. If
you can remember lyrics that correspond to the song you are trying to recall, finding the
song is as easy as performing a text query on a web search engine. A query by humming
system allows a user to find a song even if he merely knows the tune from part of the
melody.
• “I don’t know the name. I don’t know who does it.
• But I can’t get this song out of my head.”
• Well, why not just hum it.
Query by humming System
It is a music retrieval technology in which users can hum or sing a melody to retrieve the
song.
The user simply sings or hums the tune into a computer microphone, and the system
searches through a database of song for melodies containing the tune and returns a ranked
list of search results. Thus user can then find the desired song by listening to the results.
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A Query by Humming (QBH) system enables a user to hum a melody into a microphone
connected to a computer in order to retrieve a list of possible song titles that match the
query melody. The system analyzes the melodic and rhythmic information of the input
signal. The extracted data set is used as a database query. The result is presented as a list of
e.g. ten best matching results.
Generally, a QBH system is a Music Information Retrieval (MIR) system. A MIR systems
provides several means for music retrieval, which can be hummed audio signal, but also
music genre classification or text information about the artist or title.
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2. BASIC ARCHITECTURE
Fig- Basic System Architecture
The basic architecture of the system is depicted in above figure. A microphone takes the
hummed input and sends this as a PCM signal to extraction block. The extracted information
results here which is given to the transcription part. The transcription block forms Melody
Contour to be compared with all contours residing in the database. A result list is finally
presented to the user.
Extraction
The extraction block is also referred as the acoustic front end. After recording the signal
with a computer sound card the signal is band pass filtered to reduce environmental noise
and distortion. In this system a sampling rate of 8000 Hz is used. The signal is band limited
to 80 to 800 Hz, which is sufficient for sung input. This frequency range corresponds to a
musical note range of D2–G5.
Transcription
The transcription block transcribes the extracted information into the representation that is
needed for comparison. The main task is to segment the input stream into single notes. This
can be done using parson code algorithm.
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Comparison
The transcription result is used as database query. Several distance measures can be used to
find a similar piece of music. The database contains a collection of already transcribed
melodies formatted according to the MelodyContourType.
The Result is finally presented to the user.
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3. APPLICATIONS
These are some examples of QBH Systems.
Shazam
Shazam is a commercial mobile phone-based music identification service. The company was
founded in 1999 by Chris Barton, Philip Inghelbrecht, Avery Wang and Dhiraj Mukherjee.
Shazam uses a mobile phone's built-in microphone to gather a brief sample of music being
played. An acoustic fingerprint is created based on the sample, and is compared against a
central database for a match. If a match is found, information such as the artist, song title,
and album are relayed back to the user.
Shazam can identify prerecorded music being broadcast from any source, such as a radio,
television, cinema or club, provided that the background noise level is not high enough to
prevent an acoustic fingerprint being taken, and that the song is present in the software's
database.
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SoundHound
SoundHound (known as Midomi until December 2009) is a mobile device service that allows
users to identify music by humming, singing or playing a recorded track. The service was
launched by Melodis Corporation (now SoundHound Inc), under Chief Executive Keyvan
Mohajer in 2007 and has received funding from Global Catalyst Partners, TransLink Capital
and Walden Venture Capital.
SoundHound is a music search engine available on the Apple App Store, Google Play,
Windows Phone Store, and on June 5, 2013, was available on the BlackBerry 10 platform. It
enables users to identify music by playing, singing or humming a piece. It is also possible to
speak or type the name of the artist, composer, song and piece. Unlike competitor Shazam,
SoundHound can recognise tracks from singing, humming, speaking, or typing, as well as
from a recording. Sound matching is achieved through the company's 'Sound2Sound'
technology, which can match even poorly-hummed performances to professional
recordings.
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Midomi
Midomi is the ultimate music search tool. Sing, hum, or whistle to instantly find your
favorite music and connect with a community that shares your musical interests.
At midomi you can create your own profile, sing your favorite songs and share them with
your friends and get discovered by other midomi users. You can listen to and rate other
users' musical performances, see their pictures, send them messages, buy original music,
and more.
midomi features an extensive digital music store with a growing collection of more than two
million legal music tracks. You can listen to samples of original recordings, buy the full studio
versions directly from midomi, and play them on your Windows computer or compatible
music players.
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Musipedia
Musipedia is a search engine for identifying pieces of music. This can be done by whistling a
theme, playing it on a virtual piano keyboard, tapping the rhythm on the computer
keyboard, or entering the Parsons code. Anybody can modify the collection of melodies and
enter MIDI files, bitmaps with sheet music, lyrics or some text about the piece, or the
melodic contours as Parsons Code.
Musipedia's search engine works differently from that of search engines such as Shazam.
The latter can identify short snippets of audio (a few seconds taken from a recording), even
if it is transmitted over a phone connection. Shazam uses Audio Fingerprinting for that, a
technique that makes it possible to identify recordings. Musipedia, on the other hand, can
identify pieces of music that contain a given melody. Shazam finds exactly the recording that
contains a given snippet, but no other recordings of the same piece.
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4. THE ART OF SINGING
It is obvious that people have imperfect memories for melodies or may lack any formal
singing practice.
1.People sing any part of the melody. A repetitive melodic passage in a song may represent
the ’hook-line’ of a song that ’gets stuck in people’s head’.
2.People sing at the wrong key. People chose a random pitch to start their singing. Only for
their most favorite songs, people are thought to have a latent ability of absolute pitch.
3. People sing at a reasonably correct global tempo. People knew or had a feeling, by
previous hearings, what the correct tempo would be and were able to approach this tempo
reasonably accurately. But still it is not possible to sing in correct tempo.
4.People sing too many or too few notes. Human memory is imperfect to recall all pitches
in the right order. People sang just the line they remembered. They also added all kinds of
ornaments (e.g., grace notes, filler notes, or thinner notes) to beautify their singing or to
ease the muscular motor processes involved in singing.
5.People sing the wrong intervals or confuse some with others. People sang about 59% of
the intervals correctly, though there were differences due to singing experience, song
familiarity and recent song exposure. Interval confusion seems to be symmetric;
interchanging an interval with another was found to be equally likely as the other way
around. A large interval (thirds and larger) tends to be more easily interchanged for another.
6. People sing the contour reasonably accurately. People largely knew when to go up and
when to go down in pitch when singing; they did that correctly in 80% of the times.
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7. People with singing experience sing better on some aspects than people without singing
experience do. The non-experienced and experienced singers did not differ in singing the
contour of a melody accurately. However, experienced singers reproduced proportionally
more correct intervals and sang at a better timing.
8. People sing familiar melodies better than less familiar ones. Less familiar melodies were
reproduced with fewer notes and had proportionally fewer correct intervals than familiar
melodies. Also, both experienced and non-experienced singers improved their singing of
intervals when they had heard the melody very recently.
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4.1 CHALLENGES
Building such a system, however, presents some significantly greater challenges than
creating a conventional text-based search engine. Unlike lyrical content, there exists no
intuitively obvious way to represent and store melodic content in a database. The chosen
representation must be indexable for efficient searching. Furthermore, several issues
unique to query by humming systems pose significant challenges to creating an efficient and
accurate music search system.
1. Users may not make perfect queries. Even if a user has a perfect memory of a particular
tune, he may start at the wrong key, or he may hum a few notes off-pitch throughout the
course of the tune. Sometimes he may even drop some notes entirely or add notes that did
not exist in the original melody. Additionally, no user is expected to be able to perfectly
hum at the same tempo as the songs stored in the database. Finally, since none of these
errors are mutually exclusive, a humming query may contain any combination of these
errors.
2. Accurately capturing pitches and notes from user hums is difficult, even if the user
manages to submit a perfect query. Currently existing software for converting raw audio
data into discrete pitch information is mediocre at best and oftentimes will introduce a
great deal of noise when extracting the pitches from a user’s hum.
3. Similarly, accurately capturing melodic information from a pre-recorded music file is
difficult. Properly extracting the melody from a given song is a field of study on its own but
is absolutely critical for an accurate query by would be of little use if the database contains
inaccurate representations of the target songs.
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5.FILE FORMATS
Wav File Format
WAVE or WAV format is the short form of the Wave Audio File Format (rarely referred to as
the audio for Windows). WAV format compatible with Windows, Macintosh or Linux.
Despite the fact that the WAV file can hold compressed audio, the most common use is to
store it is just an uncompressed audio in linear PCM (LPCM). The standard format of Audio-
CD, for example, is the audio in LPCM, 2-channel, sampling frequency of 44,100 Hz and 16
bits per sample.
As a format, derived from the Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF), WAV-files can have
metadata (tags) in the chunk INFO. In addition, the WAV files can contain metadata
standard Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP).
Uncompressed WAV files are quite large in size, so, as file sharing over the Internet has
become popular, the WAV format has declined in popularity. However, it is still a widely
used, relatively "pure", i.e. lossless, file type, suitable for retaining "first generation"
archived files of high quality, or use on a system where high fidelity sound is required and
disk space is not restricted.
MIDI File Format
The term MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface and is essentially a
communications protocol for computers and electronic musical instruments.
Although the produced MIDI files are not exactly the same as the typical digital audio
formats we use (like MP3, AAC, WMA, etc.) to listen to music, MIDI files can still be thought
of as digital music.
Rather than an actual audio recording stored as binary data, a MIDI file in its simplest form
is made up of information that describes what musical notes are to be played, along with
the types of instruments that are to be used
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MIDI Files therefore do not contain any 'real world' recordings like voice (e.g. Audio books),
live performances, etc.,
However, MIDI files are very small and can be played on a wide range of devices that
support the MIDI protocol. Examples of hardware that can play MIDI files include: cell
phones, smart phones, and even your computer using the right software. Examples of MIDI
file format is Monophonic and polyphonic Ringtones.
In QBH system it is chose to create our database of songs using songs in the midi file format.
Because the midi representation already discretizes the notes, making it easier to extract
the pitch and timing information necessary for our song matching. Alternate music file
formats such as wav, mp3, aiff, etc. would require complicated waveform and signal
processing that could lead to many inaccuracies. Each of our songs is also mapped to a set
of metadata attributes such as song name and song artist for eventual display in the GUI
result list.
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6. SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE
The architecture is illustrated in above Figure. Operation of the system is straight-forward.
Queries are hummed into a microphone, digitized, and fed into a pitch-tracking module. The
result, a contour representation of the hummed melody, is fed into the query engine, which
produces a ranked list of matching melodies. The database of melodies will be acquired by
processing public domain MIDI songs, and is stored as a flat file database. Pitch tracking can
be performed. Hummed queries may be recorded in a variety of formats. The query engine
uses an approximate pattern matching algorithm, in order to tolerate humming errors. The
melody database is essentially an indexed set of soundtracks. The acoustic query, which is
typically a few notes hummed by the user, is processed to detect its melody line. The
database is searched to find those songs that best match the query.
While the overall task is one that is easily performed by humans, many challenging
problems arise in the implementation of an automatic system. These include the signal
processing needed for extracting the melody from the stored audio and from the acoustic
query, and the pattern matching algorithms to achieve proper ranked retrieval. Further, a
robust system must be able to account for inaccuracies in the user’s singing
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6.1 WAV TO MIDI CONVERSION
To create a MIDI a file for a song recorded in WAV format a musician must determine pitch,
velocity and duration of each note being played and record these parameters into a
sequence of MIDI events. The Midi created represents the basic melody and chords of
recognized music. The difference between WAV and MIDI formats consists in representation
of sound and music. WAV format is digital recording of any sound (including speech) and
MIDI format is principally sequence of notes (or MIDI events). Here we have an Output File
(.mid) from an Input File (.wav) that contains musical data, and a Tone File (.wav) that
consists of monotone data. An advantage of such a structure is also the fact that the query
is prepared on the client side of the system. In this case the query is very short. Besides,
there is a possibility to evaluate its quality before sending to the server. The system provides
for playback of the recognized melody notes in MIDI format. This allows the user to listen to
a query and take a decision either to send it to the server or to sing it once again.
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7. PARSON CODE ALGORITHM
The Parsons code, formally named the Parsons Code for Melodic Contours, is a simple
notation used to identify a piece of music through melodic motion—the motion of
the pitch up and down. Denys Parsons developed this system for his 1975 book, The
Directory of Tunes and Musical Themes. Representing a melody in this manner makes it easy
to index or search for particular pieces.
User input to the system (humming) is converted into a sequence of relative pitch
transitions.
A note in the input is classified in one of three ways
1. U = "up," if the note is higher than the previous note
2. D = "down," if the note is lower than the previous note
3. r = "repeat," if the note is the same pitch as the previous note
4. * = first tone as reference
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First note is C (72nd note). We will make it as reference note. And put the * Second note is
also C, Since it is repeating, we will put R. Next is G. G note is upper than C so we will put U
(U for upper) For second G , We put R. and so on.
This textual pattern will store into database for comparison.
Advantages
1. Pattern remains same, even if user hum the tune in different scale even if user hum
some note off key.
2. Require less space since it is stored in textual file
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8. BENCHMARKING MUSIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS
Research Paper
Benchmarking Music Information Retrieval Systems
Josh Reiss Department of Electronic Engineering Queen Mary, University of London Mile End
Road, London E1 4NS UK +44-207-882-5528 josh.reiss@elec.qmul.ac.uk
Department of Electronic Engineering Queen Mary, University of London Mile End Road,
London E1 4NS UK +44-207-882-5528 josh.reiss@elec.qmul.ac.uk
Mark Sandler Department of Electronic Engineering Queen Mary, University of London Mile
End Road, London E1 4NS UK +44-207-882-7680 mark.sandler@elec.qmul.ac.uk
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Goal of this research paper is to create an accurate and effective benchmarking system for
music information retrieval (MIR) systems. This will serve the multiple purposes of inspiring
the MIR community to add additional features and increased speed into existing projects,
and to measure the performance of their work and incorporate the ideas of other works. To
date, there has been no systematic rigorous review of the field, and thus there is little
knowledge of when an MIR implementation might fail in a real world setting.
ONLINE MIR SYSTEMS
For the purposes of this work, we considered five online MIR systems. The systems
considered all have certain properties in common. They may all be used online via the World
Wide Web. They all are used by entering a query concerning a piece of music, and all may
return information about music that matches that query. However, these systems differ
greatly in their features, goals and implementation. These differences are discussed in detail
below.
CatFind
CatFind allows one to search MIDI files using either a musical transcription or a melodic
profile based on the Parson’s Code. It has minimal features, and was intended primarily for
demonstration. Although it seems unlikely that this system will be extended, it is still useful
here as a system for comparison.
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MelDex
This allows searching of the New Zealand Digital Library. The MELody inDEX system is
designed to retrieve melodies from a database on the basis of a few notes sung into a
microphone. It accepts acoustic input from the user, transcribes it into common music
notation, then searches a database for tunes that contain the sung pattern, or patterns
similar to it. Thus the query is audio although the retrieved files are in symbolic
representation. Retrieval is ranked according to the closeness of the match. A variety of
different mechanisms are provided to control the search, depending on the precision of the
input.
MelodyHound
This melody recognition system was developed by Rainer Typke in 1997. It was originally
known as "Tuneserver" and hosted by the university of Karlsruhe. It searches directly on the
Parsons Code and was designed initially for Query By Whistling. That is, it will return the
song in the database that most closely matches a whistled query.
ThemeFinder
Themefinder, created by David Huron, et. al., allows one to identify common themes in
Western classical music, Folksongs, and latin Motets of the sixteenth century. Themefinder
provides a web-based interface to the Humdrum thema command, which in turn allows
searching of databases containing musical themes or incipits (opening note sequences).
Themes and incipits available through Themefinder are first encoded in the kern music data
format. Groups of incipits are assembled into databases. Currently there are three
databases: Classical Instrumental Music, European Folksongs, and Latin Motets from the
sixteenth century. Matched themes are displayed on-screen in graphical notation.
Music Retrieval Demo
The Music Retrieval Demo is notably different from the other MIR systems considered
herein. The Music Retrieval Demo performs similarity searches on raw audio data (WAV
files). No transcription of any kind is applied. It works by calculating the distance between
the selected file and all other files in the database. The other files can then be displayed in a
list ranked by their similarity, such that the more similar files are nearer the top. Distances
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are computed between templates, which are representations of the audio files, not the
audio itself. The waveform is Hamming-windowed into overlapping segments; each segment
is processed into a spectral representation of Mel- frequency cepstral coefficients. This is a
data-reducing transformation that replaces each 20ms window with 12 cepstral coefficients
plus an energy term, yielding a 13-valued vector. The next step is to quantize each vector
using a specially- designed quantization tree. This recursively divides the vector space into
bins, each of which corresponds to a leaf of the tree. Any MFCC vector will fall into one and
only one bin. Given a segment of audio, the distribution of the vectors in the various bins
characterize that audio. Counting how many vectors fall into each bin yields a histogram
template that is used in the distance measure. For this demonstration, the distance
between audio files is the simple Euclidean distance between their corresponding templates
(or rather 1 minus the distance, so closer files have larger scores). Once scores have been
computed for each audio clip, they are sorted by magnitude to produce a ranked list like
other search engines.
COMPARISON OF MIR SYSTEMS
In Table 1, we present a comparison of the features of the various MIR systems under
investigation. Note first that each of these systems was designed for a different purpose,
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and none of them can be considered a finished product. This table allows one to get an
overview of the state of the MIR systems available., the features that one may wish to
include in an MIR system, and the areas where improvement is most necessary. It also
highlights the need for a standardized testbed. Each of the MIR systems use a different
database of files for audio retrieval. Both CatFind and the Music Retrieval Demo have
databases with less than 500 files. Thus, any benchmarking estimates, such as retrieval
times and efficiency, are rendered useless. MelDex, MelodyHound and ThemeFinder have
databases containing over 10,000 files. This should be sufficient for estimating search
efficiency and salability.
EVALUATION ISSUES
Table 1 listed and compared the features available in existing online MIR systems. However,
this is not sufficient for effective benchmarking and evaluation of possible music
information retrieval systems that may appear in the near future and be used with large file
collection. The question of what features to evaluate is determined by what we can
measure that will reflect the ability of the system to satisfy the user. In a landmark paper,
Cleverdon[21] listed six main measurable quantities. This has become known as the
Cranfield model of information retrieval evaluation. Here, those properties are listed and
modified as applicable for MIR.
1. The coverage of the collection, that is, the extent to which the system includes relevant
matter.
2. The time lag, that is, the average interval between the time the search request is made
and the time an answer is given. Consideration should also be made of worst case or
close to worst case scenarios. It may be that certain genres or formats of music, as well
as certain types of queries, e. g., query and retrieval of polyphonic transcription based
audio may require far more time than other queries. Furthermore, if the testbed is
particularly large, dispersed or unindexed, such as with peer-to-peer based internet, then
bandwidth limitations and scalability may greatly reduce efficiency while maximizing the
collection size.
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3. The form of presentation of the output. For MIR systems this not only means having the
option of retrieving various formats, symbolic and audio, but it also implies identifying
multiple performances of the same composition.
4. The effort involved on the part of the user in obtaining answers to his search requests. So
far, MIR research has been dominated by audio engineers, computer scientists,
musicologists and librarians. As the field expands to include developers and user
interface experts this issue will acquire more significance.
5. The recall of the system, that is, the proportion of relevant material actually retrieved in
answer to a search request;
6. The precision of the system, that is, the proportion of retrieved material that is actually
relevant.
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9.CONCLUSION
Music retrieval is becoming more natural, simple and user friendly with the advancement of
QBH. Thus this technology will give broader application prospects for music retrieval.
Using Parson code algorithm it become easy to implement Query Matching System.
In this work, we have laid down a framework for benchmarking of future MIR systems. At
the moment, this field is in its infancy. There are only a handful of MIR systems available
online, each of which is quite limited in scope. Still, these benchmarking techniques were
applied to five online systems. Proposals were made concerning future benchmarking of full
online audio retrieval systems. It is hoped that these recommendations will be considered
and expanded upon as such systems become available.
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10.REFERENCES
Benchmarking Music Information Retrieval Systems
Josh Reiss Department of Electronic Engineering Queen Mary, University of London Mile End
Road, London E1 4NS UK +44-207-882-5528 josh.reiss@elec.qmul.ac.uk
Mark Sandler Department of Electronic Engineering Queen Mary, University of London Mile
End Road, London E1 4NS UK +44-207-882-7680 mark.sandler@elec.qmul.ac.uk
A Query by Humming system using MPEG-7 Descriptors
Jan-Mark Batke, Gunnar Eisenberg, Philipp Weishaupt, and Thomas Sikora
Communication Systems Group, Technical University of Berlin
Correspondence should be addressed to Jan-Mark Batke (batke@nue.tu-berlin.de)
MusicDB: A Query by Humming System
Edmond Lau, Annie Ding, Calvin On
6.830: Database Systems Final Project Report Massachusetts Institute of Technology
{edmond, annie_d, calvinon}@mit.edu