Paper: | AE-L1.4 |
Session: | Audio Structure, Similarity and Segmentation |
Time: | Tuesday, May 16, 11:30 - 11:50 |
Presentation: |
Lecture
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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. |