Music signal processing may appear to be the junior relation of the large and mature field of
speech signal processing, not least because many techniques and representations …

Chroma-based audio features, which closely correlate to the aspect of harmony, are a well-
established tool in processing and analyzing music data. There are many ways of computing …

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

Music genre recognition is a very interesting area of research in the broad scope of music
information retrieval and audio signal processing. In this work we propose a novel approach …

A cover version is an alternative rendition of a previously recorded song. Given that a cover
may differ from the original song in timbre, tempo, structure, key, arrangement, or language …

Chroma-based audio features are a well-established tool for analyzing and comparing
harmony-based Western music that is based on the equal-tempered scale. By identifying …

Creating novel interpretations of existing musical compositions is and has always been an
essential part of musical practice. Before the advent of recorded music, listening to a piece of …

The version identification (VI) task deals with the automatic detection of recordings that
correspond to the same underlying musical piece. Despite many efforts, VI is still an open …

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

Audio watermarking is a technique providing a promising solution to copyrights protection
for digital audio and multimedia products. Using this technique, hidden information called …