Contents

Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................................ 1
Michael Fingerhut (IRCAM), ISMIR 2002 General Chair

ISMIR 2002 Conference committee .................................................................................................................................. 2

Chacun cherche sa musique ............................................................................................................................................... 3

Pierre Boulez, ISMIR 2002 Honorary Chair

Variations on the Theme of Musical Similarity ............................................................................................................... 4

Douglas Hofstadter (Indiana University), Opening Keynote Speaker

Papers
Preprocessing

A Comparison of Manual and Automatic Melody Segmentation .................................................................................. 7

Massimo Melucci and Nicola Orio (University of Padova)

Automatic Transcription of Piano Music ........................................................................................................................ 15

Christopher Raphael (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Indexing Hidden Markov Models for Music Retrieval .................................................................................................. 20

Hui Jin and H. V. Jagadish (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Indexing Music Databases Using Automatic Extraction of Frequent Phrases ............................................................. 25

Anna Pienimki (University of Helsinki)

Pitch Histograms in Audio and Symbolic Music Information Retrieval ...................................................................... 31

George Tzanetakis, Andrey Ermolinskyi and Perry Cook (Princeton University)

Voice Separation A Local Optimization Approach ..................................................................................................... 39

Jrgen Kilian (Darmstadt University of Technology) and Holger H. Hoos (University of British Columbia)

Indexing, classification, analysis

Combining Musical and Cultural Features for Intelligent Style Detection .................................................................. 47
Brian Whitman and Paris Smaragdis (MIT Media Lab)

The MACSIS Acoustic Indexing Framework for Music Retrieval: An Experimental Study ..................................... 53
Cheng Yang (Stanford University)

Pattern Discovery Techniques for Music Audio ............................................................................................................. 63

Roger B. Dannenberg and Ning Hu (Carnegie Mellon University)

Using Psycho-Acoustic Models and Self-Organizing Maps to Create a Hierarchical Structuring of Music
by Sound Similarity ........................................................................................................................................................... 71
Andreas Rauber (Vienna University of Technology), Elias Pampalk (Austrian Research Institute
for Artificial Intelligence) and Dieter Merkl (Vienna University of Technology)

Summarization

Automatic Music Summarization via Similarity Analysis ............................................................................................. 81

Matthew Cooper and Jonathan Foote (FX Palo Alto Laboratory)

Interactive Music Summarization Based on GTTM ...................................................................................................... 86

Keiji Hirata (NTT Communications Science Laboratories) and Shu Matsuda (Digital Art Creation)

Toward Automatic Music Audio Summary Generation from Signal Analysis ............................................................ 94
Geoffroy Peeters, Amaury La Burthe and Xavier Rodet (IRCAM)

Query by Example

A Comparative and Fault-tolerance Study of the Use of N-grams with Polyphonic Music ...................................... 101
Shyamala Doraisamy and Stefan Rger (Imperial College London)

A Highly Robust Audio Fingerprinting System ............................................................................................................ 107

Jaap Haitsma and Ton Kalker (Philips Research Eindhoven)

An Auditory Model Based Transcriber of Singing Sequences .................................................................................... 116

L. P. Clarisse, J. P. Martens, M. Lesaffre, B. De Baets, H. De Meyer and M. Leman (Ghent University)

Johnny Cant Sing: A Comprehensive Error Model for Sung Music Queries ........................................................... 124
Colin Meek and William Birmingham (University of Michigan)

Mid-Level Music Melody Representation of Polyphonic Audio for Query-by-Humming System ........................... 133
Jungmin Song, So Young Bae and Kyoungro Yoon (LG Electronics)

Polyphonic Score Retrieval Using Polyphonic Audio Queries: A Harmonic Modeling Approach .......................... 140
Jeremy Pickens (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Juan Pablo Bello (University of London),
Giuliano Monti (University of London), Tim Crawford (Kings College), Matthew Dovey (Oxford University),
Mark Sandler (University of London) and Don Byrd (Indiana University)

Similarity and Recognition

Measuring the Similarity of Rhythmic Patterns ........................................................................................................... 150

Jouni Paulus and Anssi Klapuri (Tampere University of Technology)

Music Similarity Measures : Whats the Use? .............................................................................................................. 157

Jean-Julien Aucouturier and Franois Pachet (Sony Computer Science Lab., Paris)

Singer Identification in Popular Music Recordings Using Voice Coding Features ................................................... 164
Yongmoo E. Kim and Brian Whitman (MIT Media Lab)

The Quest for Ground Truth in Musical Artist Similarity .......................................................................................... 170
Daniel P.W. Ellis (Columbia University), Brian Whitman (MIT Media Lab), Adam Berenzweig (Columbia University)
and Steve Lawrence (NEC Research Institute)

Systems

A Kind of Content-Based Music Information Retrieval Method in a Peer-to-Peer Environment ........................... 178
Chaokun Wang, Jianzhong Li and Shengfei Shi (Harbin Institute of Technology)

CubyHum: A Fully Operational Query by Humming System .................................................................................... 187

Steffen Pauws (Philips Research Eindhoven)

The CUIDADO Project ................................................................................................................................................... 197

Hugues Vinet (IRCAM), Perfecto Herrera (IA-UPF) and Franois Pachet (Sony CSL)

Usability

A Review of Factors Affecting Music Recommender Success ..................................................................................... 204

Alexandra Uitdenbogerd and Ron van Schyndel (RMIT University)

Categories of Music Description and Search Terms and Phrases Used by Non-Music Experts .............................. 209
Ja-Young Kim and Nicholas J. Belkin (Rutgers University)

Interdisciplinary Communities and Research Issues in Music Information Retrieval ............................................. 215
Joe Futrelle and J. Stephen Downie (University of Illinois)

PATS: Realization and User Evaluation of an Automatic Playlist Generator ........................................................... 222
Steffen Pauws (Philips Research Eindhoven) and Berry Eggen (Philips Research Eindhoven and
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven)

Usability of Musical Digital Libraries: a Multimodal Analysis ................................................................................... 231

Ann Blandford and Hanna Stelmaszewska (University College London)

Special Session on Metadata (invited talks)

Technology and Art Putting Things in Context ......................................................................................................... 238

Leonardo Chiariglione (Telecom Italia)

Towards Harmonization of Metadata ............................................................................................................................ 241

Theodore C. Tanner, Jr. (Microsoft Corporation)

Why not MARC? ............................................................................................................................................................. 242

Harriette Hemmasi (Indiana University)

Managing Metadata ........................................................................................................................................................ 249

David Datta (All Media Guide)

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About this Business of Metadata .................................................................................................................................... 252

Eric D. Scheirer (Bose Corporation)

Short papers/posters (extended abstracts)

Preprocessing and representations

Carnatic Ragas as Music Information Retrieval Entities ............................................................................................. 257

Gordon Geekie (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Introducing Feedback into an Optical Music Recognition System ............................................................................. 259

John R. McPherson (University of Waikato)

Digital Image Capture of Musical Scores ...................................................................................................................... 261

Ichiro Fujinaga (Johns Hopkins University) and Jenn Riley (Indiana University)

Representing Korean Traditional Music Notation in XML ......................................................................................... 263

Jin Ha Lee, J. Stephen Downie and Allen Renear (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Extraction and analysis

Audio Retrieval by Rhythmic Similarity ....................................................................................................................... 265

Jonathan Foote, Matthew Cooper (FX Palo Alto Laboratories) and Unjung Nam (CCRMA)

Encoding Timing Information for Musical Query Matching ...................................................................................... 267

Bryan Pardo and William Birmingham (University of Michigan)

Integrating Pattern Matching into an Analogy-Oriented Pattern Discovery Framework ........................................ 269
Olivier Lartillot (IRCAM)

Locating Segments with Drums in Music Signals ......................................................................................................... 271

Toni Heittola and Anssi Klapuri (Tampere University of Technology)

On Detecting Repeated Notes in Piano Music ............................................................................................................... 273

Matija Marolt and Sasa Divjak (University of Ljubljana)

On the Use of FastMap for Audio Retrieval and Browsing ......................................................................................... 275
Pedro Cano, Martin Kaltenbrunner, Fabien Gouyon and Eloi Batlle (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Query by Example

Learning to Cope with Diversity in Music Retrieval .................................................................................................... 277

Thomas Mandl and Christa Womser-Hacker (University of Hildesheim)

Mobile Melody Recognition System with Voice-Only User Interface ........................................................................ 279
Timo Sorsa and Katriina Halonen (Nokia Research Center)

Popular Music Retrieval by Independent Component Analysis .................................................................................. 281

Yazhong Feng, Yueting Zhuang and Yunhe Pan (Zhejiang University)

SIA(M)ESE: An Algorithm for Transposition Invariant, Polyphonic Content-Based Music Retrieval .................. 283
Geraint A. Wiggins (City University, London), Kjell Lemstrm (University of Helsinki) and
David Meredith (City University, London)

Some Considerations About Processing Singing Voice for Music Retrieval .............................................................. 285
Emanuele Pollastri (Universit degli Studi di Milano)

Corpora and databases

RWC Music Database: Popular, Classical, and Jazz Music Databases ...................................................................... 287
Masataka Goto (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and PRESTO JST),
Hiroki Hashiguchi (Mejiro University), Takuichi Nishimura (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and
Technology) and Ryuichi Oka (University of Aizu)

Forming a Corpus of Voice Queries for Music Information Retrieval: A Pilot Study .............................................. 289
David Bainbridge, John R. McPherson and Sally Jo Cunningham (University of Waikato)

Opuscope Towards a Corpus-Based Music Repository ............................................................................................ 291

Thomas Noll, Jrg Garbers (Technische Universitt Berlin), Karin Hthker, Christian Spevak (Universitt Karlsruhe)
and Tillman Weyde (Universitt Osnabrck)

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Usability

An Extensible Representation for Playlists ................................................................................................................... 293

Amar Chaudhary (Creative Advanced Technology Ctr.)

Content-Based Playlist Generation: Exploratory Experiments .................................................................................. 295

Beth Logan (Hewlett-Packard Labs)

Super-Convenience for Non-musicians: Querying MP3 and the Semantic Web ....................................................... 297
Stephan Baumann (German Research Center for AI) and Andreas Klter (sonicson GmbH)

Towards a Theory of Music Information Retrieval Queries: System Design Implications ...................................... 299
J. Stephen Downie (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Sally Jo Cunningham (University of Waikato)

Panels (position statements)

Music Information Retrieval Evaluation Frameworks ................................................................................................ 303

Moderator: Stephen J. Downie (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

The OMRAS Approach to Music Information Retrieval in the Real World ............................................................. 305
Moderator: Tim Crawford (City University, London)

Similarity in Music .......................................................................................................................................................... 306

Moderator: Ludger Hofmann-Engl

Tutorials (abstracts)

Digital Music Representations ........................................................................................................................................ 311

Geoffroy Peeters and Grard Assayag (IRCAM)

Music Information Retrieval for Audio Signals ............................................................................................................ 313

George Tzanetakis (Princeton University)

Modern Methods for Statistical Audio Signal Processing and Characterization ...................................................... 315
Shlomo Dubnov (Ben Gurion University)

Rsums des interventions (abstracts in French) .........................................

Author Index

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