Music Information Retrieval

Advanced Seminar Informatik, Winter semester 2008/09

Time: Winter term 2008/09, weekly, Thu. 16-18
Place: E1.4 (MPI), Room 23

Instructor: Meinard Müller
Tutors: Verena Konz; Peter Grosche

Content

In this seminar, we discuss a number of current research problems in the field of music information retrieval (MIR) including:

Performance Analysis
Music Segmentation
Music Structure Analysis

For a description of the topics, see PDF.

Course requirements

The seminar particularly (but not exclusively) addresses the participants of the course Information Retrieval for Music and Motion. Requirements are a solid mathematical background, a good understanding of fundamentals in digital signal processing, as well as a general background and personal interest in music. The seminar is accompanied by readings from textbooks or the research literature. Furthermore, the students are required to experiment with MATLAB.

Course material

Textbook:

Meinard Müller
Information Retrieval for Music and Motion
318 p. 136 illus. 39 in color, hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-540-74047-6
Springer
Latex-Template for Summary.
Powerpoint-Template for Presentation.
Relevant material can also be found on the website for the course Information Retrieval for Music and Motion.