Music Processing

Advanced Seminar Informatik, Winter semester 2010/11

Time: Winter term 2010/11
Place: E1.4 (MPI), Room 019

Instructor: Meinard Müller
Tutors: Verena Konz; Peter Grosche

Scheine

The graded evidence of achievements (benoteter Schein) can be picked up at Room 202, Campus E1-4 (Sabine Budde, Ellen Fries) from January, 12, on (in the morning is better).

Dates and Times for Presentations

The seminar is full. We have reserved the following blocks for presentations:

Dec. 02, 15-19
Dec. 09, 15-17:30
Dec. 16, 15-19
Jan. 06, 15-18

Content

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

Cover Song Identification
Chord Recognition and Harmonic Analysis
Music Structure Analysis
Non-negative Matrix Factorization
Harmonic-Percussive Source Separation

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.
Course information and further material will be announced in the preparatory meeting.
Relevant material will be handed out on an individual basis.