Signal Processing Methods for Music Transcription is the first book dedicated to uniting
research related to signal processing algorithms and models for various aspects of music …

Rhythm belongs with harmony, melody, and timbre as one of the most fundamental aspects
of music. Sound by its very nature is temporal, and in its most generic sense, the word …

Today, a large number of audio features exists in audio retrieval for different purposes, such
as automatic speech recognition, music information retrieval, audio segmentation, and …

Pulse clarity is considered as a high-level musical dimension that conveys how easily in a
given musical piece, or a particular moment during that piece, listeners can perceive the …

In this paper, we propose a method that can identify challenging music samples for beat
tracking without ground truth. Our method, motivated by the machine learning method …

As machines become more and more portable, and part of our everyday life, it becomes
apparent that developing interactive and ubiquitous systems is an important aspect of new …

Concatenative sound synthesis is a promising method of musical sound synthesis with a
steady stream of work and publications for over five years now. This article offers a …

Algorithms for musical tempo estimation have become increasingly complicated in recent
years. These algorithms typically utilize two fundamental properties of musical rhythm: some …

Timbre distance and similarity are expressions of the phenomenon that some music appears
similar while other songs sound very different to us. The notion of genre is often used to …

Since a few years, classification in music research is a very broad and quickly growing field.
Most important for adequate classification is the knowledge of adequate observable or …