TY - GEN
T1 - Content-based retrieval for music collections
AU - Tseng, Yuen Hsien
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright 1999 ACM.
PY - 1999/8/1
Y1 - 1999/8/1
N2 - A content-based retrieval model for tackling the mismatch problems specific to music data is proposed and implemented. The system uses a pitch profile encoding for queries in any key and an n-note indexing method for approximate matching in sub-linear time. A distinct function that extracts key melodies for query suggestion is developed. The Web-based system provides flexible user interface for query formulation and result browsing. Users can search the system by a short sequence of notes, by uploading a file created by singing, or by clicking suggested key melodies without input. Experiments show that the pitch profile encoding and a 3-note indexing are able to overcome the key mismatch problem and the random errors caused by pitch error, note deletion and insertion. The use of extracted key melodies improves performance over direct search of the music database. For the type of burst mismatch, a query expansion approach is applied.
AB - A content-based retrieval model for tackling the mismatch problems specific to music data is proposed and implemented. The system uses a pitch profile encoding for queries in any key and an n-note indexing method for approximate matching in sub-linear time. A distinct function that extracts key melodies for query suggestion is developed. The Web-based system provides flexible user interface for query formulation and result browsing. Users can search the system by a short sequence of notes, by uploading a file created by singing, or by clicking suggested key melodies without input. Experiments show that the pitch profile encoding and a 3-note indexing are able to overcome the key mismatch problem and the random errors caused by pitch error, note deletion and insertion. The use of extracted key melodies improves performance over direct search of the music database. For the type of burst mismatch, a query expansion approach is applied.
KW - Approximate string matching
KW - Key melody extraction
KW - Music indexing
KW - Music retrieval
KW - Pitch profile encoding
KW - Query suggestion
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U2 - 10.1145/312624.312675
DO - 10.1145/312624.312675
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84889288359
T3 - Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 1999
SP - 176
EP - 182
BT - Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 1999
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 22nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 1999
Y2 - 15 August 1999 through 19 August 1999
ER -