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Outline
- A talk by Julien
- Music Information Retrieval
- Introduction
- History
- Information retrieval
- Classification and estimation
- Sequence labeling
- Evaluation
- Corpora and databases
- System issues
- Socio-cultral issues
- Intellectual property
- Conferences & journals
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Introduction
Music information retrieval (MIR) is “a multidisciplinary research endeavor that strives to
develop innovative content-based searching schemes, novel interfaces, and evolving networked
delivery mechanisms in an effort to make the world’s vast store of music accessible to all”
(Downie 2004).
- Catergories of data
- Image
- Symbolic data
- Audio
- Metadata
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History
- The term first use in the title of an academic paper: 1966
- Computational musicology in the 1970: mostly symbolic music analysis
- Research with audio data
- Timbre identification: 1968
- Pitch tracking: 1975
- Key / Beat / Meter / Tempo extraction: 1985
- Query by humming: 1993
- First ISMIR conference: 2000
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Information Retrieval
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Information Retrieval: Symbolic data
- Query by tapping
- Melodic / harmonic similarity measures
- Theme finding
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Information Retrieval: Audio
- Cover-song identification
- Query by humming
- Fingerprinting
- Similariy measures / recommendation
- Playlist generation
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Information Retrieval: Metadata
- Music recommendation
- Database search and federation
- Playlist generation (e.g., Pandora, Spotify, Rdio), etc.
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Classification and Estimation
- Image data
- Symbolic data
- Audio
- Metadata
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Classification and Estimation: Images
- Scribe identification
- Printer identification
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Classification and Estimation: Symbolic data
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Classification and Estimation: Audio
- Performer / singer identification
- Composer identification
- Timbre / timbre identification
- Genre classification
- Emotion / Mood classification
- Tag estimation
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Classification and Estimation: Metadata
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Sequence Labeling
- Images
- Symbolic data
- Audio
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Sequence Labeling: Images
- Optical music recognition
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Sequence Labeling: Symbolic data
- Expressive timing
- Voice separation
- Automated harmonic analysis
- Pitch spelling
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Sequence Labeling: Audio
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Corpora and databases
- Digital music libraries and archives
- Public access to musical archives
- Multi-agent systems, distributed search
- Text and web mining
- Web services an APIs
- P2P / L2L search
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System issues
- Performance
- Compression
- Scalability
- Databases
- Architecture
- Distributed search / federation
- Balance loading
- Multi-agent systems / mashups
- Mobile applications
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Socio-cultral issues
- Business models and experience
- Music and cultural heritage valorization
- Non-Western music
- Personalized user profiles
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Intellectual property
- Copyright
- Watermarking
- Digital rights management
- Expert witness
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Conferences and journals
- ISMIR
- Other related conferences
- Journals