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Whistle for music: using melody transcription and approximate string matching for content-based query over a MIDI database
Hung-Che Shen,Chung-Nan Lee +1 more
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A system which enables users to retrieve MIDI format music by whistling a melodic fragment by extending an existing search engine into a fast approximate melodic matching engine and achieving a real-time and robust whistle-to-MIDI converter.Abstract:
In this paper, we present a "Whistle for Music" system which enables users to retrieve MIDI format music by whistling a melodic fragment. Three essential components are query processing, MIDI preprocessing and an approximate search engine. For query processing, we have achieved a real-time and robust whistle-to-MIDI converter. For feature extraction, the proposed MIDI preprocessing can extract individual, local and global melodic descriptions from MIDI files. In order to match query with target, we extend an existing search engine into a fast approximate melodic matching engine. Based on the integration of those three components, the system can return a list of MIDI files that are ranked by how closely they match the whistling. The systematic evaluation for the query-by-whistling system is finally performed. The results show that careful measurement and objective comparisons can lead us to know the scaling trend about query and target. One encouraging aspect is that the performance can be predicted based on the evaluation methods.read more
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An interactive Whistle-to-Music composing system based on transcription, variation and chords generation
Hung-Che Shen,Chung-Nan Lee +1 more
TL;DR: This paper has constructed an interactive Whistle-to-Music composing system with which a user can compose MIDI format music by whistling into a microphone and study users’ experiences and present the results of an experiment which tests how accurately people whistle along a target melody.
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A novel algorithm based on time-frequency analysis for extracting melody from human whistling
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A novel MIR framework and application with automatic voice processing, database construction and fuzzy matching
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Melodic Track Identification in MIDI Files Considering the Imbalanced Context
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