Title : 
AREEB: Automatic REfrain extraction for ThumBnail
         
        
            Author : 
Mellina, Alessio ; Sentinelli, Alexandro ; Marfia, Gustavo ; Roccetti, Marco
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Adv. Syst. Technol., STMicroelectron., Agrate Brianza, Italy
         
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This paper investigates a given branch of the music information retrieval field, specifically that of audio thumbnail, through which a piece of music can be automatically summarized. We first provide a survey on the different techniques available today for the generation of music summaries, and then we propose a practical method that, based on best practices, is able to summarize songs with a great efficacy.
         
        
            Keywords : 
audio signal processing; information retrieval; multimedia systems; music; AREEB; audio thumbnail; automatic refrain extraction for thumbnail; music information retrieval; music summarization; Band pass filters; Databases; Feature extraction; Multimedia communication; Music; Power harmonic filters; Vectors; Audio Thumbnailing; End User Experience; Music Information Retrieval and Management; Music Summarization;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), 2012 IEEE
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Las Vegas, NV
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4577-2070-3
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/CCNC.2012.6181003