Measuring music similarity is essential for multimedia retrieval. For music items, this task can
be regarded as obtaining a suitable distance measurement between songs defined on a …

We have all heard numerous melodies, whether they come from commercial jingles, jazz
ballads, operatic arias, or any of a variety of different sources. How a human detects …

This paper describes the implementation submitted by the author to the MIREX'06 (Music
Information Retrieval eX-change) evaluation track on audio-based music similarity and …

Timbral modeling is fundamental in content based music similarity systems. It is usually
achieved by modeling the short term features by a Gaussian Model (GM) or Gaussian …

Melody is an important property for the perceptual description of Western musical pieces. In
the monophonic context, retrieval systems based on melodic similarity generally consider …

Automated musical similarity search and retrieval has gained great attention in recent years,
as testified by the number of proposed approaches on this topic. Despite the``fuzzy''nature of …

Melodic similarity is an important concept for music databases, musicological studies, and
interactive music systems. Dynamic programming is commonly used to compare melodies …

We present a new geometric model to compute the melodic similarity of symbolic musical
pieces. Melodies are represented as splines in the pitch-time plane, and their similarity is …

Estimating the symbolic music similarity is one of the major open problems in the music
information retrieval research domain. Existing systems consider sequences of notes …

One of the central tasks in the annual MIREX evaluation campaign is the” Audio Music
Similarity and Retrieval (AMS)” task. Songs which are ranked as being highly similar by …