Assignment #1 (Due 01/26) 4%
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HTML- or slide-based presentation of existing music databases. Describe the content, history, and uses of the database, highlighting any research conducted with it. (15 min):
- Themefinder
- Meldex
- Cantus & Cantus Index
- IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library
- Choral Public Domain Library
- Museopen
- Aria
- Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae Electronicum
- MIDI databases (e.g., kunstderfuge.com)
- Million Song Dataset, Lakh MIDI Dataset, Slakh Dataset
- McGill Billboard Dataset
- Online music stores (e.g., Grooveshark, iTunes, Rhapsody, Spotify, Pandora, Rdio, etc.) (a review)
- More...
Assignment #2 (Due 02/09) 6% Slide-based presentation II (15 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 fille formats: MEI, MusicXML, MIDI, etc., or audio compression
techniques
- Annotated bibliography (short summary and evaluation) as an HTML page or a PDF file (use links, if avialable) (Chicago
style, Documentation II: Author-Date References, 17th edition)
Assignment #3 (Due 2/23) 10% Slide-based presentation III (15 min)
- Slide-based presentation of review of topics related to classifiers,
e.g.: Feature extraction (audio or symbolic), Neural Networks (shallow, deep, CNN, RNN, LSTM, 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.
- Written summary (2–3
pages, single spaced, single or double columns, 1" margins) with an annotated bibliography (Chicago
style, Documentation II: Author-Date References,17th edition)
Assignment #4 (Due 03/16) 10% Slide-based presentation IV (15 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-time pitch tracking, piano
music transcription, timbre recognition, genre classification, review of a component of jMIR, etc.
- 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 03/30) 10% Slide-based presentation V (10–15 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.
- Written summary (2–3 pages) plus an extensive bibliography (Chicago
style, Documentation II: Author-Date References: 17th edition)
Assignment #6 (Due 03/30) 5%
- A draft of the final project proposal (1–2 pages), including subgoals, plus a partial bibliography (Chicago
style, Documentation II: Author-Date References, 17th edition)
Assignment #7 (Due 04/13) 5%
- Final project presentation describing what you intend to do (5–8 min)
- 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 05/04) 40%
- Software project with description (2–3 pages) (Repository on Github)
or
- Research paper (5–10 pages) (ISMIR style)
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