DIVA: An Automatic Music Arrangement Technique Based on Impression of Images

It is very important to match images and music according to their impression. Our research focuses on automatic arrangement of music according to impressions of images. As the first result of our research, this paper reports a technique to automatically arrange music by inferring the impression of input images according to their color distribution and objects, and selecting a rhythm pattern according to the impression of images. As a preprocessing, the technique first provides users sample colors, sample images, and keywords of objects, and then collects the answer of users which are selection of rhythm patterns associated from the colors, images, and keywords. The technique then leads an equation to infer the association of rhythm pattern to the colors, images, and keywords. Finally, the technique automatically calculation the association values of all prepared rhythm patterns from arbitrary input images, and provides users the music arranged by the most associated rhythm pattern.