Assignment #1 (Due 01/23) 4%
Assignment #2 (Due 02/06) 6% Slide-based presentation II (12 min)
- Slide-based presentation of audio file formats: AIFF, WAV/WMA, Opus (Ogg Vorbis), Lossless formats (FLAC), etc.; MPEG formats: MPEG1 (MP3), MPEG4 (AAC), MPEG7, & MPEG21;
symbolic file formats: MEI, MusicXML, MIDI, etc., or audio compression
techniques. Submit the slids as a PDF file.
- Annotated bibliography (short summary and evaluation) as a PDF file (use links, if avialable) (Chicago
style, Documentation II: Author-Date References, 17th edition) of the presentation topic.
Assignment #3 (Due 2/20) 10% Slide-based presentation III (12 min)
- Slide-based presentation of review of topics related to classifiers,
e.g.: Feature extraction (audio or symbolic), Feature selection (with Genetic Algorithms) Neural Networks (shallow, deep, CNN, RNN, LSTM, Transformers, etc.), Support Vector Machines, Decision Tree (ID3), Random Forest, Gradient Boosting, Gaussian Mixture Models,
Hidden Markov Models, AdaBoost, and Dynamic Programming; include music information retrieval applications.
Submit the slids as a PDF file.
- Written summary (2–3
pages, single spaced, single or double columns, 1" margins) plus an annotated bibliography (Chicago
style, Documentation II: Author-Date References,17th edition) of the presentation topic.
Assignment #4 (Due 03/12) 10% Slide-based presentation IV (12 min)
- Slide-based presentation on topics of transcription, recognition, annotation, and classification. It may include general 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 overviews, real-tme pitch tracking, piano
music transcription, timbre recognition, genre classification, review of a component of jMIR, etc. Submit the slides as a PDF file.
- Written summary (2–3 pages) with an extensive bibliography (Chicago
style, Documentation II: Author-Date References, 17th edition), which should include practically all significant papers on the subject. You do not need to annotated them but should reference each one of them in the summary paper.
Assignment #5 (Due 03/26) 10% Slide-based presentation V (10–12 min)
- Slide-based presentation on review of topics related to similarity, query systems, recommendation / playlist systems, or exploratory research on topics related to your
final project. Submit the slides as a PDF file.
- Written summary (2–3 pages) plus an extensive bibliography (Chicago
style, Documentation II: Author-Date References: 17th edition) of the presentation topic.
Assignment #6 (Due 03/26) 5%
- A draft of the final project proposal (1–2 pages), including a tentative title, subgoals, plus a partial bibliography (Chicago
style, Documentation II: Author-Date References, 17th edition).
Assignment #7 (Due 04/09) 5%
- Final project presentation describing what you intend to do (5–8 min). Submit the slids as a PDF file.
- Final project proposal (1–2 pages) with the title and a full bibliography (Chicago
style, Documentation II: Author-Date References, 17th edition).
Final project (Due 05/02) 40%
- Software project with description (2–3 pages) (Repository on Github) (ISMIR style)
or
- Research paper (5–10 pages) (ISMIR style)
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