There has been a rapid growth of digitally available music data, including audio recordings,
digitized images of sheet music, album covers and liner notes, and video clips. This huge …

The textbook provides both profound technological knowledge and a comprehensive
treatment of essential topics in music processing and music information retrieval (MIR) …

The rapidly growing corpus of digital audio material requires novel retrieval strategies for
exploring large music collections. Traditional retrieval strategies rely on metadata that …

Cover song identification is an important problem in the field of Music Information Retrieval.
Most existing methods rely on hand-crafted features and sequence alignment methods, and …

Cover song identification has long been a challenging task due to key, timbre and structure
variations in different renditions of a song. Previous research mostly involves handcrafted …

Nowadays computers play an important role in all areas of music, from composition to
production and live performance. This is obvious for all kinds of popular music, where …

Music was the first mass-market industry to be completely restructured by digital technology,
and today we can have access to thousands of tracks stored locally on our smartphone and …

Cross-version music retrieval aims at identifying all versions of a given piece of music using
a short query audio fragment. One previous approach, which is particularly suited for …

From the 19th century on, several composers of Western opera made use of leitmotifs (short
musical ideas referring to semantic entities such as characters, places, items, or feelings) for …

The growth of multimedia collections-in terms of size, heterogeneity, and variety of media
types-necessitates systems that are able to conjointly deal with several forms of media …