Music Technology Seminar (MUMT621)

Music Information Acquisition, Preservation, and Retrieval

Outline for Fall 2009
09/03  
09/10

Special Guest: Brian McMillan, “Information Literacy”

HTML presentations (10–15 min)

  • Bruno: Musipedia
  • François: Cantus & Scribe
  • Janice: freesound.org
09/17

Special Guest: Andrew Hankinson, "Document Representation in Digital Music Libraries"

09/24  

Special Guest: Mathieu Bergeron, "Temporal Patterns in Polyphony"

Slide-based presentation I

  • David: MusicXML
  • François: MPEG1 (MP3)
  • Janice: Ogg Vorbis
10/01
  • Classifiers (genre, instrument, mood, performer, composer, rhythm, beat tracking, etc.)
  • Cedar: MPEG4
  • Gabriel: MPEG7
  • Bruno: Audio file formats
10/08

Slide-based presentation II

  • Cedar: Dynamic Programming
  • Bruno: Neural Networks
10/15

Special Guest: Cory McKay, jMIR

  • François: Hidden Markov Models
  • David: Gaussian Mixture Models
10/22
  • Gabriel: k-Neaest Neighbour Classifier
  • Janice: Support Vector Machines

Slide-based presentation III

  • David: jAudio
  • Bruno: jMusicMetaManager
  • Francois: ACE
10/29 No class (ISMIR)  
11/05  
  • Janice: FRBR & Music Ontology
  • Gabriel: jWebMiner
  • Cedar: jSymbolic
11/12
  • Indexing
  • Watermarks
  • Final project proposal due

Slide-based presentation IV

  • Francois: Real-time pitch tracking
  • Gabriel: Goto's work
  • David: Beat tracking in audio
  • Bruno: Polyphonic transcription
11/19

Special Guest: Nathan Banks, Creating Cross-References Using a Suffix Array: A Unique Way to Analyze Ancient Greek and Music

  • Janice: Performer identification
  • Cedar:
11/26
  • 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 09/10) 4%

HTML presentation of existing music databases:

Assignment #2 (Due 09/24) 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 10/08) 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
  • Written summary (2-3 pages) with complete bibliography
Assignment #4 (Due 10/22) 10% Slide-based presentation III
  • Slide-based presentation of review of a component of jMIR
  • Annotated bibliography HTML page with links (due 10/31)
  • Written summary (2-3 pages) with extensive bibliography (Chicago style) (due 10/31)
Assignment #5 (Due 11/12) 5%
  • Final project proposal (1-2 pages with partial bibliography, inlcude sub goals)
Assignment #6 (Due 11/12) 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, performer identification, structural (form) analysis, cover-song identification.
  • Annotated bibliography HTML page with links
  • Written summary (2-3 pages) with extensive bibliography (Chicago style)
Assignment #7 (Due 11/26) 5%
  • Final project full bibliography
Final project (Due 12/21) 40%
  • Software project with description (2–3 pages)

or

  • Research paper (5–10 pages)

Reading list
  • Byrd, D., and T. Crawford. 2001. Problems of music information retrieval in the real world. Information Processing & Management 38 (2): 249–72.
  • Casey, M., et al. 2008. Content-based music information retrieval. Proceedings of the IEEE 96 (4): 668–96.
  • 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.
  • All ISMIR papers (2000–8)
  • MIREX
  • PhDTheses and Doctoral Dissertations Related to Music Information Retrieval (Pampalk)

Participants
Created: 2004.01.02 Modified: Ichiro Fujinaga
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