Personalized karaoke

In this paper, a personalized karaoke system, P-karaoke, is proposed. In the P-karaoke system, personal home videos and photographs, which are automatically selected from users´ multimedia database according to their content, users´ preferences or music, are utilized as the background videos of the karaoke. The selected video clips, photographs, and lyrics obtained from the lyric service or manual labeling, are aligned with the music rhythm connected by specific content-based transitions. Additionally, photographs are converted into motion photo clips by a Photo2Video technology, which automatically converts a photograph or photographic series into a video by simulating camera motions. Furthermore, a query by humming (QBH) system can be integrated into P-karaoke easily, which enables users to find their desired music/songs efficiently.