Computer Music Seminar 5

MUMT614

01/10	Introduction Literature search
01/16	Overview Networks Databases	HTML presentation (10-15 min) Aria (Rob) Cantus (Cory) MELDEX (Wes) MIDI databases (Andrew) Themefinder (François)
01/23	Standards and Representations	PowerPoint Presentation I (15-20 min) MPEG1 (Wes) MPEG4 (François) MPEG7 (Andrew) MPEG21 (Cory) Ogg Vorbis (Robert)
01/30	Recognition and Analysis
02/06	Transcriptions	PowerPoint presentation II (Cory, Wes)
02/13		PowerPoint presentation II (Andrew, François, Rob)
02/20	Final project proposal due
03/06	Similarity	PowerPoint presentation III (Rob, François)
03/13	Classifiers	PowerPoint presentation III (Wes, Cory)
03/20	Query	PowerPoint presentation IV (François, Rob)
03/27	Indexing Final project progress report	PowerPoint presentation IV (Cory, Wes) Final project bibliography due
04/03	Usability Systems issues Web services
04/10	Evaluation of MIR Socio-cultural aspects Intellectual property issues

Assignment #1 (Due Jan 16) 5%

HTML presentation of existing music databases

Assignment #2 (Due Jan 23) 5%

Assignment #3 (Due Feb 6) 10%

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

Assignment #4 (Due Mar 13) 10%

Assignment #5 (Due Mar 27) 10%

Final project (Due Apr 20) 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.

Created: 2003.01.07 Modified: Ichiro Fujinaga