93 266 396 (Indeoendent of range grid) Table 2 lists the number of floating-point operations required to set the initial points for the local search with respect to the number of grids in the range using MATLAB hnction ’flops’. The Quasi-Newton method was used to find the peaks of the 2-D MUSIC spectrum required to initialise the proposed algorithm. For both the 2-D MUSIC and 3-D MUSIC, the gri...

Optical music recognition (OMR) is one of the most promising tools for generating large-scale, distributable libraries of musical data. Much OMR work has focussed on instrumental music, avoiding a special challenge vocal music poses for OMR: lyric recognition. Lyrics complicate the page layout, making it more difficult to identify the regions of the page that carry musical notation. Furthermore...

The benefit of auditory models for solving three music recognition tasks—onset detection, pitch estimation, and instrument recognition—is analyzed. Appropriate features are introduced which enable the use of supervised classification. The auditory model-based approaches are tested in a comprehensive study and compared to state-of-the-art methods, which usually do not employ an auditory model. F...

The appeal of music lies in its ability to express emotions, and it is natural for us to organize music in terms of emotional associations. But the ambiguities of emotions make the determination of a single, unequivocal response label for the mood of a piece of music unrealistic. We address this lack of specificity by modeling human response labels to music in the arousal-valence (A-V) represen...

While enjoying music and other works of art, people sometimes experience "chills," a strong emotional response characterized by a sensation of goose bumps or shivers. Such experiences differ from having goose bumps as a defense response or from shivering in reaction to cold temperatures. The current paper presents the phenomenon of music-induced chills and reviews the chill-related emotional re...

With the advent of larger electronic music repositories, the automatic organization of music into different genre categories is receiving increased attention. The creation of such genre hierarchies, as well as ways for providing useful interfaces to these, poses an interesting challenge. With the SOM-enhanced JukeBox (SOMeJB) system we developed an approach for automatically organizing pieces o...

This study explains the metrical hierarchical structure of music that deals with onsets of musical events and the distances between them. The metrical structure is essential for the temporal organization of notes and the perception of rhythm. The paper shows the suitability of inter onset interval histograms to cover major metrical characteristics such as dominant metrical levels, regularity an...

Music Information Retrieval (MIR) involves searching and organising large collections of music, or music information, according to their relevance to specific queries. This is particularly relevant given the vast quantities of musical information available in digital format, and the popularity of music-related digital services. The last four years have seen the introduction of a major conferenc...

     There are several reasons for usage of music and musical activities. Music is part of artistic activities of human beings. Perhaps people are exposed to music more than other artistic works in their daily lives. Due to the necessity of considering music as a part of human identity, we tried to study the amount of music used by young people in Zanjan based on four hypothesis: cultural li...

We propose a system of colour visualization of music based on a system of colour signs, which are connected to musical tones. Tones, which are in harmonic relationships, are represented by related colours. First, we outline the foundations on which the system of colour signs is based – the mathematical model of harmony. We discuss several possibilities of visual representation of expressive ele...