Computer Music Seminar 5

Computer Music Seminar 2 (MUMT611)

01/12	Introduction
01/19	Networks Other Databases Research topics	HTML presentation (10-15 min) Themefinder (Michael) Cantus (Paul) Scribe (Doug) Meldex (Adam) Aria (Mark)
01/26	Standards and Representations	PowerPoint Presentation I (15-20 min) MPEG1 (Adam) Ogg Vorbis (Mark) MPEG4 (Michael) MPEG7 (Paul) MPEG21 (Doug)
02/02	Recognition and Analysis
02/09	Transcriptions	PowerPoint presentation II (Mark, Michael, Paul, Doug)
02/16	Final project proposal due	PowerPoint presentation II (Adam)
03/01	Similarity	PowerPoint presentation III Fingerprinting (Michael) Singer similarity (Doug)
03/08	Classifiers	PowerPoint presentation III Timbre similarity (Paul) Rythmic similarity (Adam) Audio similarity (Mark)
03/15	Query	Special Guset: Cory McKay Genre Recognition PowerPoint presentation IV Watermark (Michael) HMM (Doug) Web Services (Mark) Neural Nets (Paul)
03/22	Indexing Final project progress report	Special Guset: Rob Ferguson Support Vector Machines PowerPoint presentation IV Final project bibliography due
03/29	Usability Systems issues Web services	Final Project presentation
04/05	Evaluation of MIR Socio-cultural aspects Intellectual property issues	Final Project presentation

Assignment #1 (Due Jan 19) 5%

HTML presentation of existing music databases:

Assignment #2 (Due Jan 26) 5%

Powerpoint presentation of MPEG formats (MPEG1, MPEG4, MPEG7, MPEG21) or Ogg Vorbis
Annotated bibliography HTML page with links

Assignment #3 (Due Feb 9) 10%

Powerpoint-like presentation of review of transcription systems (monophonic, polyphonic, separation)
Annotated bibliography HTML page with links
Written summary (2-3 pages) with complete bibliography (Chicago style)

Assignment #4 (Due Mar 8) 10%

Assignment #5 (Due Mar 22) 10%

Powerpoint presentation of review of topic related to classifiers or query systems
Annotated bibliography HTML page with links
Written summary (2-3 pages) with complete bibliography

Final project (Due Apr 26) 50%

Byrd, D., and T. Crawford. 2001. Problems of music information retrieval in the real world. Information Processing & Management 38 (2): 249-72.
Downie, S. 2003. Music infomration retrieval. In Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 37, edited by B. Cronin, 295-340. Medford, NJ: Information Today.
Foote, J. 1999. An Overview of Audio Information Retrieval. Multimedia Systems 7(1): 2-10.
ISMIR 2003 Proceedings
ISMIR 2002 Proceedings (Papers, posters)
ISMIR 2001 Proceedings
ISMIR 2000 Proceedings

Created: 2004.01.02 Modified: Ichiro Fujinaga