Computer Music Seminar 2 (MUMT611)

Music Information Acquisition, Preservation, and Retrieval

Outline for Winter 2005
01/06  
01/13

HTML presentation (10-15 min)
01/20

Slide-based presentation I (15-20 min)

  • Audio Compression Overview (Paul)
  • MPEG1 (Dan)
  • MPEG4 (Ich)
01/27

Slide-based presentation I (15-20 min)

  • MPEG7 (Damon)
  • MPEG21 (Elliot))
  • Ogg Vorbis (Philippe)
  • MusicXML (Carmine)
  • GUIDO (Rebecca)
  • Metadata standards (Catherine)
02/03  
02/10  

Slide-based presentation II

  • Historical overview (Dan)
  • Beat/tempo tracking using MIDI (Carmine)
  • Beat/tempo tracking using audio (Paul)
  • Goto's works (Damon)
02/17
  • Final project proposal due

Slide-based presentation II

  • Beat-box transcription (Elliot)
  • Blackboard polyphonic transcription (Rebecca)
  • Piano music transcription (Catherine)
  • Real-time pitch tracking (Philippe)
03/03

Slide-based presentation III

  • Fingerprinting (Philippe)
  • Timbre similarity I (Dan)
  • Timbre similarity II (Rebecca)
  • Genre similarity (Elliot)
03/10 (cancelled)

 
03/17 Special Guest: Cory McKay
Genre Recognition

Slide-based presentation III

  • Audio similarity (Damon)
  • Melodic similarity (Paul)
  • Rhythmic similarity (Carmine)
  • Singer similarity (Catherine)
03/24
  • Indexing
  • Final project progress report

Slide-based presentation IV

  • Hidden Markov Models (Paul)
  • Support Vector Machines (Damon)
  • Usability (Catherine)
03/31

Slide-based presentation IV

  • Dynamic Programming (Carmine)
  • Gaussian Mixture Models (Elliot)
  • Genetic algorithms (Rebecca)
  • Neural Netwoks (Philippe)
  • Web services (Dan)

Final Project presentation

Final project bibliography due
04/07
  • Evaluation of MIR
  • Socio-cultural aspects
  • Intellectual property issues
 Final Project presentation

Assignments

Assignment #1 (Due Jan 13) 4%

HTML presentation of existing music databases:

Assignment #2 (Due Jan 20) 6%
  • Slide-based presentation of MPEG formats (MPEG1 (Dan), MPEG4, MPEG7 (Damon), MPEG21 (Elliot)), Ogg Vorbis (Philippe), or symbolic formats MusicXML (Carmine), GUIDO (Rebecca), audio compression techniques (Paul)
  • Annotated bibliography HTML page with links
Assignment #3a (Due Feb 10) 4%
  • Slide-based presentation of review of transcription systems (monophonic, polyphonic, separation): Beat-box transcription (Elliot), beat/tempo tracking using audio (Paul), beat/tempo tracking using MIDI (Carmine), blackboard polyphonic transcription (Rebecca), Goto's works (Damon), historical overview (Dan), real-time pitch tracking (Philippe), piano music transcription (Catherine).
Assignment #3b (Due Feb 17) 6%
  • Annotated bibliography HTML page with links
  • Written summary (2-3 pages) with complete bibliography (Chicago style)
Assignment #4 (Due Feb 17) 5%
  • Final project proposal (1-2 pages with some bibliography)
Assignment #5a (Due Mar 3) 4% Slide-based presentation III
  • Slide-based presentation on review of topic related to similarity
Assignment #5b (Due Mar 10) 6%
  • Annotated bibliography HTML page with links
  • Written summary (2-3 pages) with complete bibliography (Chicago style)
Assignment #6a (Due Mar 24) 4% Slide-based presentation IV
  • Slide-based presentation of review of topic related to classifiers or query systems (e.g. Watermarks, HMM, Web Services)
Assignment #6b (Due Mar 31) 6%
  • Annotated bibliography HTML page with links
  • Written summary (2-3 pages) with complete bibliography
Assignment #7 (Due Mar 31) 5%
  • Final project bibliography
Final project (Due Apr 26) 40%
  • Software project with description (2-3 pages)

or

  • Research paper (5-10 pages)

Reading list

Participants
Created: 2004.01.02 Modified: Ichiro Fujinaga
McGill Crest