Computer Music Seminar 2 (MUMT611)

Music Information Acquisition, Preservation, and Retrieval


Outline for Winter 2004

01/12  
01/19

HTML presentation (10-15 min)

  • Themefinder (Michael)
  • Cantus (Paul)
  • Scribe (Doug)
  • Meldex (Adam)
  • Aria (Mark)
01/26

PowerPoint Presentation I (15-20 min)

  • MPEG1 (Adam)
  • Ogg Vorbis (Mark)
  • MPEG4 (Michael)
  • MPEG7 (Paul)
  • MPEG21 (Doug)
02/02  
02/09 PowerPoint presentation II (Mark, Michael, Paul, Doug)
02/16
  • Final project proposal due
PowerPoint presentation II (Adam)
03/01

PowerPoint presentation III

  • Fingerprinting (Michael)
  • Singer similarity (Doug)
03/08

PowerPoint presentation III

  • Timbre similarity (Paul)
  • Rythmic similarity (Adam)
  • Audio similarity (Mark)
03/15 Special Guset: Cory McKay
Genre Recognition

PowerPoint presentation IV

  • Watermark (Michael)
  • HMM (Doug)
  • Web Services (Mark)
  • Neural Nets (Paul)
03/22
  • Indexing
  • Final project progress report

Special Guset: Rob Ferguson
Support Vector Machines

PowerPoint presentation IV

Final project bibliography due

03/29 Final Project presentation
04/05
  • Evaluation of MIR
  • Socio-cultural aspects
  • Intellectual property issues
Final Project presentation

Assignments

Assignment #1 (Due Jan 19) 5%

HTML presentation of existing music databases:


Assignment #2 (Due Jan 26) 5%
  • Powerpoint presentation of MPEG formats (MPEG1, MPEG4, MPEG7, MPEG21) or Ogg Vorbis
  • Annotated bibliography HTML page with links

Assignment #3 (Due Feb 9) 10%
  • Powerpoint-like presentation of review of transcription systems (monophonic, polyphonic, separation)
  • Annotated bibliography HTML page with links
  • Written summary (2-3 pages) with complete bibliography (Chicago style)

Assignment #4 (Due Mar 8) 10%
  • Powerpoint presentation on review of topic related to similarity
  • Annotated bibliography HTML page with links
  • Written summary (2-3 pages) with complete bibliography (Chicago style)

Assignment #5 (Due Mar 22) 10%
  • Powerpoint presentation of review of topic related to classifiers or query systems
  • Annotated bibliography HTML page with links
  • Written summary (2-3 pages) with complete bibliography

Final project (Due Apr 26) 50%
  • Software project with description (2-3 pages) and complete bibliography

or

  • Research paper (5-10 pages) and complete bibliography

Paul Kosek
Michael Murray
Adam Tindale
Doug Van Nort
Mark Zadel

Reading list

 

Created: 2004.01.02 Modified: Ichiro Fujinaga
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