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 …

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 …

Behavioral scientists–including those in psychology, infant and child development,
education, animal behavior, marketing and usability studies–use many methods to measure …

We present a new method for clustering based on compression. The method does not use
subject-specific features or background knowledge, and works as follows: First, we …

Repetition is a core principle in music. Many musical pieces are characterized by an
underlying repeating structure over which varying elements are superimposed. This is …

This paper describes a method for obtaining a list of repeated chorus (" hook") sections in
compact-disc recordings of popular music. The detection of chorus sections is essential for …

This paper describes a method for obtaining a list of chorus (refrain) sections in compact-
disc recordings of popular music. The detection of chorus sections is essential for the …

The paper investigates the use of acoustic based features for music information retrieval.
Two specific problems are studied: similarity search (searching for music sound files similar …

Automatic music classification and summarization are very useful to music indexing, content-
based music retrieval and on-line music distribution, but it is a challenge to extract the most …

We present a framework for analyzing the structure of digital media streams. Though our
methods work for video, text, and audio, we concentrate on detecting the structure of digital …