ICASSP 2006 - May 15-19, 2006 - Toulouse, France

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Paper:AE-L1.4
Session:Audio Structure, Similarity and Segmentation
Time:Tuesday, May 16, 11:30 - 11:50
Presentation: Lecture
Topic: Audio and Electroacoustics: Applications to Music
Title: Extraction of High-Level Musical Structure from Audio Data and its Application to Thumbnail Generation
Authors: Mark Levy, Mark Sandler, Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom; Michael Casey, University of London, United Kingdom
Abstract: A method for segmenting musical audio with a hierarchical timbre model is introduced. New evidence is presented to show that music segmentation can be recast as clustering of timbre features, and a new clustering algorithm is described. A prototype thumbnail-generating application is described and evaluated. Experimental results are given, including comparison of machine and human segmentations.



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