abstract despite the existence of long-standing ties between poetry and music, sanāyi, the famous poet of the sixth century, was a serious opponent unlike many other poets. he overtly blamed music as erotic art and composed poems blaming music. the author describes sanāyi’s opinion about music in this paper and explores the terms of his disagreement. in the meantime, social backgrounds of his o...

 This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61179045. Abstract Motion history image (MHI) and motion energy image(MEI) can recognize simple actions effectively, but they can’t represent the velocity information of the actions. Sometimes in the behavior recognition, we must take the speed into account. For example, touching a person, fierce and frien...

The present study examines the role of similarity in music preferences in the formation and discontinuation of friendships over a 1-year period. Questionnaire data were gathered from 283 Dutch same-sex mutual best friends (mean age=12.97) in two waves with a 1-year interval. Results show consistent evidence for high similarity in specific music dimensions among friends at both waves. Moderate s...

A gesture-driven, composition system framework called “Hand Composer” is presented. The framework is based on the analysis of the existing relationships between music generative models and musical composition in the context of the 20 century music historical background. A short definition of three music generative models with their control parameters is provided. The system framework is based o...

research on popular music in iran has a short history. perhaps the article “sociology of the music of the masses in iran”, published in 1980, can be considered as the first methodological and systematic study on the popular music in iran.  in that article, the researcher, using marxist and neo-marxist approaches to study popular music, provides a general view on the music of the masses of the p...

Emotion recognition is an open problem in Affective Computing the field. Music emotion recognition (MER) has challenges including variability of musical content across genres, the cultural background of listeners, reliability of ground truth data, and the modeling human hearing in computational domains. In this study, we focus on experimental music emotion recognition. First, we present a music...

In this study, we propose a semi-supervised speech-music separation method which uses the speech, music and speech-music segments in a given segmented audio signal to separate speech and music signals from each other in the mixed speech-music segments. In this strategy, we assume, the background music of the mixed signal is partially composed of the repetition of the music segment in the audio....

The purpose of the present paper was to review the literature to develop an understanding of the effects of noise and music on human performance. The second purpose was to study the effects of music on a commonly performed task that is frequently accompanied by background music: driving. Background noise not only affects public health, but it also negatively affects human performance in such ta...

Introduction: Emotion regulation, the process of changing one’s emotion is necessary for efficiency when performing cognitive tasks, and is often measured using a Stroop task that provides conflict between emotional and factual information. Researchers have found that listening to music increases performance on cognitive tasks, and we hypothesized that listening to music samples that evoke diff...

Music perception and practice represent complex cognitive functions of the human brain. Recently, evidence for the molecular genetic background of music related phenotypes has been obtained. In order to further elucidate the molecular background of musical phenotypes we analyzed genome wide copy number variations (CNVs) in five extended pedigrees and in 172 unrelated subjects characterized for ...