Section: Application Domains

Advanced processing for music information retrieval

Music content modeling

Music pieces constitue a large part of the vast family of audio data for which the design of description and search techniques remain a challenge. But while there exist some well-established formats for synthetic music (such as MIDI), there is still no efficient approach that provide a compact, searchable representation of music recordings.

In this context, the METISS research group dedicates some investigative efforts in high level modeling of music content along several tracks. The first one is the acoustic modeling of music recordings by deformable probabilistic sound objects so as to represent variants of a same note as several realisation of a common underlying process. The second track is music language modeling, i.e. the symbolic modeling of combinations and sequences of notes by statistical models, such as n-grams.

Multi-level representations for music information retrieval

New search and retrieval technologies focused on music recordings are of great interest to amateur and professional applications in different kinds of audio data repositories, like on-line music stores or personal music collections.

The METISS research group is devoting increasing effort on the fine modeling of multi-instrument/multi-track music recordings. In this context we are developing new methods of automatic metadata generation from music recordings, based on Bayesian modeling of the signal for multilevel representations of its content. We also investigate uncertainty representation and multiple alternative hypotheses inference.