Music Content Analysis Projects

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Below are the publications and other links relating to the music work being carried out at LabROSA:

Transcription and alignment

See also the Melody transcription resources page.

G. Poliner, D. Ellis, A. Ehmann, E. Gómez, S. Streich, B. Ong (2007) Melody Transcription from Music Audio: Approaches and Evaluation

IEEE Tr. Audio, Speech, Lang. Proc., accepted for publication. (10pp)

D. Ellis (2006) Extracting Information from Music Audio

Communications of the ACM (invited paper, special issue on Music Information Retrieval), vol. 49, no. 8, pp.32-37, August 2006. (6pp)

G. Poliner and D. Ellis (2006) A Discriminative Model for Polyphonic Piano Transcription

Eurasip Journal of Applied Signal Processing (special issue on Music Signal Processing), to appear, 2006. (16pp)

D. Ellis and G. Poliner (2006) Classification-Based Melody Transcription

Machine Learning Journal, accepted for publication. (20pp)

G. Poliner, D. Ellis (2005) A Classification Approach to Melody Transcription

Proc. Int. Conf. on Music Info. Retrieval ISMIR-05, London, September 2005, pp.161-166. (6pp)

D. Ellis and J. Arroyo (2004) Eigenrhythms: Drum pattern basis sets for classification and generation

International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval ISMIR-04, Barcelona, Oct 2004, pp. 101-106. (6pp)
(longer tech report version with color figures)

A. Sheh, D. Ellis (2003). Chord Segmentation and Recognition using EM-Trained Hidden Markov Models

4th International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval ISMIR-03, Baltimore, October 2003. (7pp)

R. Turetsky, D. Ellis (2003). Ground-Truth Transcriptions of Real Music from Force-Aligned MIDI Syntheses

4th International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval ISMIR-03, Baltimore, October 2003. (7pp)

Music Classification and Similarity

See also the Music Similarity resources page and the Cover Song Identification page.

D. Ellis and G. Poliner (2007) Identifying Cover Songs With Chroma Features and Dynamic Programming Beat Tracking

Proc. ICASSP-07 Hawai'i, submitted. (4pp)

M. Mandel, D. Ellis (2005) Song-Level Features and Support Vector Machines for Music Classification

Proc. Int. Conf. on Music Info. Retrieval ISMIR-05, London, September 2005, pp.594-599. (6pp)

A. Berenzweig, B. Logan, D. Ellis, B. Whitman (2003). A large-scale evaluation of acoustic and subjective music similarity measures

4th International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval ISMIR-03, Baltimore, October 2003. (7pp)

B. Logan, D. Ellis, A. Berenzweig (2003). Toward evaluation techniques for music similarity

Keynote address, Workshop on the Evaluation of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) Systems at SIGIR 2003, Toronto, August 2003. (5pp)

D. Ellis, B. Whitman, A. Berenzweig, S. Lawrence (2002). The Quest for Ground Truth in Musical Artist Similarity

Proc. ISMIR-02, Paris, October 2002. (8pp)

A. Berenzweig, D. Ellis, S. Lawrence (2002). Using Voice Segments to Improve Artist Classification of Music

Proc. AES-22 Intl. Conf. on Virt., Synth., and Ent. Audio. Espoo, Finland, June 2002. (8pp)

A. Berenzweig and D. Ellis (2001). Locating Singing Voice Segments within Music Signals

Proc. IEEE Workshop on Apps. of Sig. Proc. to Acous. and Audio, Mohonk NY, October 2001. (4pp)

Finding and Browsing

M. Mandel, G. Poliner, D. Ellis (2006) Support Vector Machine Active Learning for Music Retrieval

ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, 2006. (10pp) online access

B. Whitman and D. Ellis (2004) Automatic Record Reviews

International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval ISMIR-04, Barcelona, Oct 2004, pp. 86-93. (6pp)

A. Berenzweig, D.P.W. Ellis & S. Lawrence (2003). Anchor Space for Classification and Similarity Measurement of Music

Proc. ICME-03, Baltimore, July 2003, pp. I-29--32. (4pp)

Sound Textures

M. Athineos and D. Ellis (2003). Sound Texture Modelling with Linear Prediction in both Time and Frequency Domains

Proc. ICASSP-03, Hong Kong, April 2003, pp. V-648--651. (4pp)