The comparison of world music cultures has been a recurring topic in the field of musicology
since the end of the nineteenth century. Recent advances in technology in the field of Music …

Automatic note-level transcription is considered one of the most challenging tasks in music
information retrieval. The specific case of flamenco singing transcription poses a particular …

In this paper we focus on the characterization of singing styles in world music. We develop a
set of contour features capturing pitch structure and melodic embellishments. Using these …

Flamenco is a music tradition from Southern Spain that attracts a growing community of
enthusiasts around the world. Its unique melodic and rhythmic elements, the typically …

A prominent aspect of the notion of musical similarity across the music of various cultures is
related to the local matching of melodic motifs. This holds for Indian art music, a highly …

This work focuses on the topic of melodic characterization and similarity in a specific musical
repertoire: a cappella flamenco singing, more specifically in debla and martinete styles. We …

Expressive singing voice correction is an appealing but challenging problem. A robust time-
warping algorithm which synchronizes two singing recordings can provide a promising …

Melody categorization refers to the task of grouping a set of melodies into categories of
similar items that originate from the same melodic contour. From a computational …

In the minimum-weight many-to-many point matching problem, we are given a set R of red
points and a set B of blue points in the plane, of total size N, and we want to pair up each …

The comparison of world music cultures has been considered in musicological research
since the end of the 19th century. Traditional methods from the field of comparative …