One of the main bottlenecks in the progress of the Music Information Retrieval (MIR) research field is the limited access to common, large and annotated audio databases that could serve for technology development and/or evaluation. The aim of this paper is to present in detail the ENST-Drums database, emphasizing on both the content and the recording process. This audiovisual database of drum p...

Design issues in developing an interactive performance system are discussed. The development of Drum-Boy, an interactive percussion system for non-experts, is documented, along with discussions of features that make such a real-time creative environment effective. Concrete examples of problems encountered during the design and development phase of Drum-Boy are investigated. Specific issues incl...

In automatic music transcription, metadata extraction from recorded audio data or speaker separation in video conferencing, it is a significant prerequisite task to analyze and separate the audio signal into their original source components. In this report, I study and analyze a set of methods of the extraction of percussive instruments metadata from polyphonic music. It mainly focuses on the s...

The boiler drum level control unit is one of the main parameter in the thermal power station. Currently the boiler drum parameters are monitored only by using MATLAB software. There is no automatic control available. In the proposed system the boiler drum parameters such as temperature level, pressure level, water level and Droplet identifier are measured and controlled by using embedded proces...

We discuss in this paper two post-processings for drum transcription systems, which aim to model typical properties of drum sequences. Both methods operate on a symbolic representation of the sequence, which is obtained by quantizing the onsets of drum strokes on an optimal tatum grid, and by fusing the posterior probabilities produced by the drum transcription system. The first proposed method...

This paper presents an evaluation and comparison of four input devices for percussion tasks: a standard tom drum, Roland V-Drum, and two established examples of gestural controllers: the Buchla Lightning II, and the Radio Baton. The primary goal of this study was to determine how players’ actions changed when moving from an acoustic instrument like the tom drum, to a gestural controller like th...