Computer Music Seminar 5

Computer Music Seminar 2 (MUMT611)

ISMIR Paper deadline: 11 April 2007

01/04	Introduction Networks
01/11	Other Databases Research topics	Special Guest: Brian McMillan, “Information Literacy” HTML presentations (10–15 min)
01/18	Standards and Representations	Slide-based presentation I Bertrand: MPEG4 Corey: FLAC Shi Yong: Ogg Vorbis
01/25	Classifiers	Slide-based presentation I Ashley: MusicXML / MEI Andrew: FRBR
02/01	Recognition and Analysis	Slide-based presentation II Shi Yong : Genetic Algorithms Corey: Hidden Markov Models I Ashley: Hidden Markov Models II
02/08		Slide-based presentation II Bertrand: Gaussian Mixture Models Andrew: Dynamic Programming Special Guest: Laurent Pugin Aruspix
02/15	Transcriptions Final project proposal due	Special Guest: Catherine Lai Metadata for Phonograph Records Final projects:
03/01	Similarity	Slide-based presentation III Andrew: Piano music transcription
03/08		Ashley: “Music Plus One” system Bertrand: Pitch extraction Shi Yong: F0-estimation Corey: Beat/tempo tracking
03/15	Query	Special Guest: Cory McKay Genre Recognition Slide-based presentation IV Melodic similarity Shi Yong: Rhythmic similarity Genre similarity Corey: Timbre similarity Audio similarity Bertrand: Singer similarity Fingerprinting Andrew: Playlist
03/22	Indexing Watermarks Final project progress report	Ashley: Collborative filtering
03/29	Usability Systems issues Web services
04/05	Evaluation of MIR: MIREX Socio-cultural aspects Intellectual property issues	Final project bibliography due Final project presentation

Assignment #1 (Due 01/11) 4%

HTML presentation of existing music databases:

Assignment #2 (Due 01/18) 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 02/01) 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, and AdaBoost or Dynamic Programming
Annotated bibliography HTML page with links
Written summary (2-3 pages) with complete bibliography

Assignment #4 (Due 02/15) 5%

Assignment #5 (Due 03/01) 10% Slide-based presentation III

Slide-based presentation of 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.
Annotated bibliography HTML page with links
Written summary (2-3 pages) with extensive bibliography (Chicago style)

Assignment #6 (Due 03/15) 10% Slide-based presentation IV

Assignment #7 (Due 04/05) 5%

Final project (Due 04/24) 40%

Byrd, D., and T. Crawford. 2001. Problems of music information retrieval in the real world. Information Processing & Management 38 (2): 249–72.
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.
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Created: 2004.01.02 Modified: Ichiro Fujinaga