• DocumentCode
    2608100
  • Title

    Music indexing and retrieval

  • Author

    Shakra, Ismail ; Frederico, Gustavo ; El Saddik, Abdulmotaleb

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Inf. Technol. & Eng., Ottawa Univ., Ont., Canada
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    2004
  • Firstpage
    83
  • Lastpage
    87
  • Abstract
    Music is a particular case of audio media that has peculiar requirements for retrieval. Its representation, parallelism and multiple features are some examples of the challenges encountered. In this paper, these challenges are characterized and the techniques commonly used for classification, indexing and searching of music content are described. Whenever possible, comparisons are drawn with text information retrieval.
  • Keywords
    audio databases; classification; content-based retrieval; indexing; multimedia databases; music; MPEG7; audio media; music classification; music content; music indexing; music parallelism; music representation; music retrieval; music searching; musical features; Content based retrieval; Hardware; Indexing; Information technology; Multimedia communication; Multimedia systems; Multiple signal classification; Music information retrieval; Natural languages; Timbre;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems, 2004. (VECIMS). 2004 IEEE Symposium on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8339-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/VECIMS.2004.1397193
  • Filename
    1397193