Increasing amount of online music content has opened new opportunities for implementing
new effective information access services–commonly known as music recommender …

We provide a survey of the field of Music Information Retrieval (MIR), in particular paying
attention to latest developments, such as semantic auto-tagging and user-centric retrieval …

We present a novel system for the automatic extraction of the main melody from polyphonic
music recordings. Our approach is based on the creation and characterization of pitch …

We present a corpus of harmonic analyses and melodic transcriptions of rock songs. After
explaining the creation and notation of the corpus, we present results of some explorations …

A cover version is an alternative rendition of a previously recorded song. Given that a cover
may differ from the original song in timbre, tempo, structure, key, arrangement, or language …

In this study we compare the use of different music representations for retrieving alternative
performances of the same musical piece, a task commonly referred to as version …

Conventional methods for finding audio in databases typically search text labels, rather than
the audio itself. This can be problematic as labels may be missing, irrelevant to the audio …

Pitch is a foundational aspect of our perception of audio signals. Pitch contours are
commonly used to analyze speech and music signals and as input features for many audio …

Music information retrieval (MIR) is “a multidisciplinary research endeavor that strives to
develop innovative content‐based searching schemes, novel interfaces, and evolving …

Music was the first mass-market industry to be completely restructured by digital technology,
and today we can have access to thousands of tracks stored locally on our smartphone and …