This work deals with pitch content visualization tools for the analysis of music performance from audio recordings. An existing computational method for the representation of pitch contours is briefly reviewed. Its application to music analysis is exemplified with two pieces of non-notated music: a field recording of a folkloric form of polyphonic singing and a commercial recording by a noted b...

Australian English is referred to widely as a rising variety of English due to the prevalence of rising tunes in interactive discourse. Australian English subjects were required to listen to a series of rising stimuli that varied in terms of pitch level and pitch span and were asked whether they heard a question or statement. The results showed that both rise span and pitch level of the rise el...

This paper introduces the Automatic Music Performance Analysis and Comparison Toolkit (AMPACT), is a MATLAB toolkit for accurately aligning monophonic audio to MIDI scores as well as extracting and analyzing timing-, pitch-, and dynamics-related performance data from the aligned recordings. This paper also presents the results of an analysis performed with AMPACT on an experiment studying inton...

We have designed, fabricated and tested a division-of-focal-plane spectral-polarization imaging sensor by the monolithic integration of aluminum nanowire linear polarization filters to a spectrally sensitive CMOS imaging array. The sensor has a pixel pitch of 5.0 μm and an imaging array size of 168 by 256 pixel elements. Each pixel comprises three layers of vertically stacked photodetectors, ea...

A language learning system for guiding a student on how to pronounce words of a second language must provide meaningful feedback while locating the learner’s errors with a high accuracy. We propose a method to detect pitch accent errors in the speech of learners of Japanese. In previous methods, Tokyo accent type recognition of the learner utterance was focused on. However, the learner may prod...

The goal of the present paper is to identify some of the differences in the intonation of Catalan and Spanish as spoken in Majorca. The tonal features we investigated were: (1) utterance-final pitch accents in broad focus declaratives, and (2) local contrastive focus pitch accents. Previous research, mostly on related varieties, such as Central Catalan and Castilian Spanish, had indirectly sugg...

Major hydraulic projects have a long tradition in Spain and must be contextualised within the framework of the so-called “hydraulic paradigm”, according to which demand must be met with a sustained increase in supply. These large projects, which include but are not limited to the construction of large reservoirs, share a series of characteristics: their implementation relies on state economic a...

This paper presents a novel technique for the estimation of the height of an object using a single camera view. In the proposed method, the only information required is the knowledge about the pose of the camera with respect to the world (i.e., height and pitch angle of the camera with respect to the ground) and a vanishing point. In the developed theory, the focal length may also be known, but...

Three experiments investigated the role of duration and intonation in the expression of emotions in natural and synthetic speech. Two sentences of an actor portraying seven emotions (neutral, joy, boredom, anger, sadness, fear, indignation) were acoustically analyzed. By copying pitch and duration of the original utterances to a monotonous one, it could be shown that both factors were sufficien...

Research in soccer has traditionally focused on very specific aspects of the game, such as technical and physiological aspects, and has largely ignored important issues such as tactical performance and the role of individual players within the team. The aim of this study was to study the different relationships that Xabi Alonso, one of the world's best midfielders, establishes with his teammate...