Music Processing

Advanced Seminar Informatik, Winter semester 2009/10

Time: Winter term 2009/10, biweekly, Thu. 15-18
Place: E1.4 (MPI), Room 24

Instructor: Meinard Müller
Tutors: Verena Konz; Peter Grosche

Content

In this seminar, we discuss a number of current research problems in the fields of Music Processing and Music Information Retrieval (MIR) including:

Performance Analysis
Chord Detection
Music Segmentation
Cover Song Identification
Audio Matching
Onset Detection
Beat and Tempo Tracking

For a description of the topics, see PDF.

Course requirements

The seminar particularly addresses participants of the course Music Processing with a good understanding of the lecture's content. 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 will be handed out on an individual basis.

Dates and Times for Presentations

Dec. 03, 15-18
Dec. 10, 15-18
Dec. 17, 15-18
Jan. 14, 15-18
Jan. 21, 15-18