In this paper we provide a description of our melody extraction algorithm submitted to the MIREX 2010 competition. We start with a brief introduction to the task of melody extraction, followed by an overview of our proposed method. The data collections and metrics used for the evaluation are described, followed by the presentation of the results and some comments on the performance of our appro...

This paper describes a compositional, extensible framework for music composition and a user study to systematically evaluate its core components. These components include a graph traversal-based chord sequence generator, a search-based melody generator and a pattern-based accompaniment generator. An important contribution of this paper is the melody generator which uses a novel evolutionary tec...

abstract background: during health care in the neonatal intensive care unit (nicu), infants undergo extremely painful procedures, which may cause problems, if not controlled, such as changes in the pattern of respiratory rate, heart rate, and blood oxygen saturation. the present study aimed to find the effect of melody on the physiological responses of neonates’ heel stick pain. materials and m...

The task of automatic melody harmonization aims to build a model that generates chord sequence as the harmonic accompaniment given multiple-bar sequence. In this paper, we present comparative study evaluating performance canonical approaches task, including template matching, hidden Markov model, genetic algorithm and deep learning. evaluation is conducted on dataset 9226 melody/chord pairs, co...

For this submission to MIREX 2007, we again provide a simple base-line for comparison against other algorithms for the task of symbolic melody matching against both monophonic and polyphonic collections of music. This year, we have included the n-gram-based matching technique that is implemented by building an n-gram index of the query, which is then used to search through each melody or track ...

Extraction of the main melody of a musical piece is a preliminary step in the process of transcribing the piece. Automatic melodic extraction is the task of computationally extracting what a human listener would perceive as the main melody of a polyphonic recording. Several melodic extraction systems have been proposed. However, such systems normally require a number of parameters to be manuall...

In this paper, we investigate the task of melodic similarity search in large melody databases with special interest in the case where the melody looked for is not part of the database. We discuss some basic questions concerning this issue and devise a technical framework for a potential solution. The main part discusses several statistical measures for their quality as melodic comparison measur...

Melodic similarity is an important concept for music databases, musicological studies, and interactive music systems. Dynamic programming is commonly used to compare melodies, often with a distance function based on pitch differences measured in semitones. This approach computes an “edit distance” as a measure of melodic dissimilarity. The problem can also be viewed in probabilistic terms: What...

Abstract In order to improve the recognition accuracy of symphonic music contour, this paper constructs an intelligent main melody system based on artificial intelligence technology make with certain search adaptation capabilities. Based traditional system, fundamental tone sequence symphony fragments is obtained by using extraction and short-time autocorrelation function in contour feature alg...

This paper describes some early attempts at developing a music indexing and retrieval system based on melody, or the tune, of songs. In the envisaged system the “query”, a song fragment whistled or sung by the user into a microphone, is used to search a database of soundtracks to find the entry that is best matched to it in tune. The challenging issues that raised by this endeavour are describe...