• Introduction

• Networks
• Other Databases
• Research topics

Special Guest: Brian McMillan, “Information Literacy”
HTML presentations (10–15 min)

• Standards and Representations

Slide-based presentation I (15–20 min)

• Audio Compression Overview
• MPEG1 (Simon)
• MPEG4 (Denis)

Slide-based presentation I (15–20 min)

• MPEG7 (Ich)
• MPEG21 (Alexandre)
• Ogg Vorbis (Greg)

• Recognition and Analysis

• MusicXML (Steve)

• Transcriptions

Slide-based presentation II

• Beat/tempo tracking using audio (Simon)
• Singing transcription (Steve)
• Voice separation (Denis)

• Final project proposal due

• Pitch tracking (Alexandre)
• Piano music transcription (Greg)

Final projects:

• HMM for Weka (Alexandre)
• Beat tracking (Simon)
• Extend pyScore for Lilypond (Steve)
• Melody recognition using HMM (Greg)
• Music browsing in virtual space (Denis)

• Similarity

Special Guest: Paul Lamere (Sun Microsystems) Music Discovery

Slide-based presentation III

• Fingerprinting (Denis)

• Classifiers

Special Guest: Rebecca Fiebrink
Similarity

• Melodic similarity (Greg)
• Rhythmic similarity (Simon)
  

• Query

Slide-based presentation III

• Genre similarity (Steve)
• Timbre similarity (Alexandre)
• Audio similarity
• Singer similarity

• Indexing
• Final project progress report

Slide-based presentation IV

• Watermarks (Denis)
• Hidden Markov Models (Alexandre)
• Image to audio conversion (Simon)

• Usability
• Systems issues
• Web services

Slide-based presentation IV

• Neural Netwoks (Greg)
• Support Vector Machines (Steve)
• Dynamic Programming
• Gaussian Mixture Models
• Genetic algorithms
• Web services
• Usability

• Evaluation of MIR
• Socio-cultural aspects
• Intellectual property issues

Final project bibliography due

Final Project presentation

Assignments

Assignment #1 (Due 01/12) 4%

HTML presentation of existing music databases:

• Themefinder (Alexandre)
• Meldex (Simon)
• Cantus & Scribe (Greg)
• Aria
• MIDI (Steve)
• Online music store (e.g., iTunes, Urge, Rhapsody) (Denis)

• Slide-based presentation of MPEG formats (MPEG1, MPEG4, MPEG7, MPEG21), Ogg Vorbis, or symbolic formats MusicXML, GUIDO, audio compression techniques
• Annotated bibliography HTML page with links

• Slide-based presentation of review of transcription systems (monophonic, polyphonic, separation): Beat-box 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.

• Annotated bibliography HTML page with links
• Written summary (2-3 pages) with complete bibliography (Chicago style)

• Final project proposal (1-2 pages with some bibliography, inlcude sub goals)

• Slide-based presentation on review of topic related to similarity

• Annotated bibliography HTML page with links
• Written summary (2-3 pages) with complete bibliography (Chicago style)

• Slide-based presentation of review of topic related to classifiers or query systems (e.g., Watermarks, HMM, Web Services)

• Annotated bibliography HTML page with links
• Written summary (2-3 pages) with complete bibliography

• Final project bibliography

• Software project with description (2–3 pages)

or

• Research paper (5–10 pages)