The Tempogram Toolbox has been developed by
Peter Grosche and
Meinard Müller.
It contains MATLAB implementations for extracting
various types of recently proposed tempo and pulse related
audio representations [1,
2, 3].
These representations
are particularly designed to reveal useful information even
for music with weak note onset information and changing
tempo. The MATLAB implementations provided on this website are published under
the terms of the General Public License (GPL).
If you publish results obtained using these implementations,
please cite [1].
For technical details on the features please cite
[1],
[2],
[3].
The extraction of local tempo and pulse information from audio
recordings constitutes a challenging task, in particular for
music with significant tempo variations. Furthermore,
the existence of various pulse levels such as measure, tactus,
and tatum often makes the determination of absolute tempo
problematic.
The Tempogram Toolbox contains MATLAB implementations for
extracting various types of tempo and pulse-related audio
representations. For an introduction, see [5].
- Novelty curve:
Given an audio recording, we first derive a novelty curve.
The peaks of this curve indicate note onset
candidates.
The variant provided by the Tempogram Toolbox is capable of
capturing even soft note onsets, as typically occuring for string instruments.
- PLP curve:
Given a (possibly very noisy) novelty curve the toolbox allows for deriving
a predominant local pulse (PLP) curve as introduced in [1].
This curve can be regarded as a local periodicity enhancement of
the original novelty curve explaining the local periodic nature
of the note onsets and provides musically meaningful local pulse information even
in the case of complex music. The PLP concept yields a powerful mid-level representation
that can be applied as a flexible tool for various music analysis tasks, such as onset detection,
tempo estimation, or beat tracking.
- Tempograms:
As second main part, the Tempogram Toolbox facilitates various tempogram representations
that reveal local tempo characteristics even for expressive music exhibiting
tempo-changes. To obtain such a representation, a novelty curve is analyzed with respect to
local periodic patterns. Here, the toolbox provides Fourier-based methods
as well as autocorrelation-based methods.
Autocorrelation-based tempograms ideally complement Fourier-based tempograms
as they indicate subharmonics while suppressing harmonics.
For both concepts, representations as time/tempo
as well as time/time-lag tempogram
are available. Furthermore, resampling and interpolation functions allow for switching between
tempo and time-lag axes as desired.
- Cyclic tempograms:
The third main part of our toolbox provides functionality for deriving
cyclic tempograms from the tempogram representations
as introduced in [2].
Here, the idea is to form tempo equivalence
classes by identifying tempi that differ by a power
of two. The cyclic tempo features constitute a robust mid-level representation
revealing local tempo characteristics of music signals
while being invariant to changes in the pulse level.
Being the tempo-based counterpart of the chromagrams,
cyclic tempograms are suitable for music analysis and retrieval tasks.
The MATLAB implementations provided on this website are published under
the terms of the General Public License (GPL), version 2 or later. If you
publish results obtained using these
implementations, please cite the references below.
Download Tempogram Toolbox (Version 1.0. Last update:
2011-11-02): [zip]
The toolbox functionality is illustrated by the following test scripts:
Important Notes:
- For the Tempogram Toolbox the MATLAB Signal Processing Toolbox is required.
- The implementations have been tested using MATLAB 2007b or newer.
- In case of questions/suggestions, please contact Peter Grosche or Meinard Müller.
- [1]
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Peter Grosche and Meinard Müller
Extracting Predominant Local Pulse Information from Music Recordings
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 19(6), 1688-1701, 2011.
[bib] [link]
- [2]
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Peter Grosche, Meinard Müller, and Frank Kurth
Cyclic Tempogram - A Mid-level Tempo Representation For Music Signals
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Dallas, Texas, USA, 2010.
[bib] [pdf]
- [3]
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Peter Grosche and Meinard Müller
Computing predominant local periodicity information in music recordings.
Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), New Paltz, 33-36, New York, USA, 2009.
[bib] [pdf]
- [4]
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Peter Grosche, Meinard Müller, and Craig Stuart Sapp
What makes beat tracking difficult? A case study on Chopin Mazurkas.
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Utrecht, The Netherlands, pp. 649-654, 2010.
[bib] [pdf]
- [5]
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Peter Grosche and Meinard Müller
Tempogram Toolbox: MATLAB Implementations for Tempo and Pulse Analysis of Music Recordings.
International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Miami, FL, USA, late-breaking contribution, 2011.
[bib] [pdf]
MATLAB implementations for computing various harmonically related feature representations
are provided by the chromagram toolbox [6].
- [6]
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Meinard Müller and Sebastian Ewert
Chroma Toolbox: MATLAB Implementations for Extracting Variants of Chroma-Based Audio Features
Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Miami, FL, USA, 2011.
[bib] [pdf]