Computer Music Seminar 2 (MUMT611)

Music Information Acquisition, Preservation, and Retrieval

Outline for Winter 2008

ISMIR Paper deadline: 26 March 2008
01/03  
01/10

Special Guest: Cynthia Leive, “Information Literacy”

HTML presentations (10–15 min)
  • Johanna: Themefinder
  • Nate: Cantus & Scribe
  • Jason: Community-based discography databases
01/17 Special Guest: Mathieu Bergeron, “Polyphonic Pattern Matching ”
  • Dave: Aria
  • Jordan: Meldex
01/24  

Slide-based presentation I

  • Johanna: Ogg Vorbis
  • Nate: MPEG1/AAC/MP3
  • Dave: MusicXML
01/31
  • Jason: FLAC
  • Jordan: GUIDO
02/07

Slide-based presentation II

  • Jason: ANN
  • Nate: Dynamic Programming
02/14

Special Guest: Cory McKay
jMIR

  • Johanna: AdaBoost
  • Jordan: SVM
  • Dave: HMM

Final projects:
02/21 No class (MLA)  
02/28 No class (Reading Week)  
03/06

Slide-based presentation III

  • Dave: jAudio
  • Jason: jMusicMetaManger
  • Jordan: jSymbolic
  • Nate: jWebMiner
  • Johanna: ACE
03/13

Special Guest: Laurent Pugin
Aruspix
03/20 No class (Easter)  
03/27
  • Indexing
  • Watermarks
  • Final project progress report

Slide-based presentation IV

  • Jason: Beat tracking
  • Jordan: Lyrics
04/03
  • Nate: Pitch tracking
  • Dave: Dynamic Time Warping
  • Johanna: Singing transcription
04/10
  • Evaluation of MIR: MIREX
  • Socio-cultural aspects
  • Intellectual property issues
  • Web 2.0 (map)
    • Collaboration
    • Tagging
    • Folksonomy
  • Web applications
  • SOA (service-oriented architecture)
    • loosely coupled and interoperable services
    • web services
    • mashups

Final project bibliography due

Final project presentation

Assignments

Assignment #1 (Due 01/10) 4%

HTML presentation of existing music databases:

Assignment #2 (Due 01/24) 6% Slide-based presentation I
  • Slide-based presentation of MPEG formats (MPEG1, MPEG4, MPEG7, MPEG21), Ogg Vorbis, symbolic formats (MusicXML, GUIDO), or audio compression techniques
  • Annotated bibliography HTML page with links
Assignment #3 (Due 02/06) 10% Slide-based presentation II
  • Slide-based presentation of review of topic related to classifiers, e.g.: Neural Netwoks, Support Vector Machines, Gaussian Mixture Models, Hidden Markov Models, AdaBoost, or Dynamic Programming
  • Annotated bibliography HTML page with links

    • (Due 02/10)
  • Written summary (2-3 pages) with complete bibliography
Assignment #4 (Due 02/14) 5%
  • Final project proposal (1-2 pages with partial bibliography, inlcude sub goals)
Assignment #5 (Due 03/06) 10% Slide-based presentation III
  • Slide-based presentation of review of a component of jMIR
  • Annotated bibliography HTML page with links
  • Written summary (2-3 pages) with extensive bibliography (Chicago style)
Assignment #6 (Due 03/27) 10% Slide-based presentation IV
  • Slide-based presentation on review of topics related to similarity, review of transcription systems (monophonic, polyphonic, separation): Beat-box transcription, singing transcription, beat/tempo tracking using audio, beat/tempo tracking using MIDI, blackboard polyphonic transcription, Goto's works, historical overview, real-time pitch tracking, piano music transcription.
  • Annotated bibliography HTML page with links
  • Written summary (2-3 pages) with extensive bibliography (Chicago style)
Assignment #7 (Due 04/10) 5%
  • Final project full bibliography
Final project (Due 04/25) 40%
  • Software project with description (2–3 pages)

or

  • Research paper (5–10 pages)

Reading list

Participants
Created: 2004.01.02 Modified: Ichiro Fujinaga
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