MIRages: an account of music audio extractors, semantic description and context-awareness, in the three ages of MIR

This tesis reports on research carried out and published during the last twenty years on different problems of Music Information Retrieval (MIR). We organize the text as a personal account and critical reflection along four hypothesized ages that have shaped the evolution of MIR. In the age of featu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Herrera Boyer, Perfecto
Tipo de recurso: tesis doctoral
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:CBUC, CESCA
Repositorio:TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red
OAI Identifier:oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/666953
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10803/666953
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Music information retrieval
Audio analysis
Music analysis
Automatic classification of music
Semantic features
Audio features
Timbre
Music creation systems
Music recommendation
Cerca d’informació musical
Anàlisi del so
Classificació automàtica de música
Descriptors semàntics
Descriptors del so
Sistemes de creació musical
Recomanació musical
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Sumario:This tesis reports on research carried out and published during the last twenty years on different problems of Music Information Retrieval (MIR). We organize the text as a personal account and critical reflection along four hypothesized ages that have shaped the evolution of MIR. In the age of feature extractors, we present work on features to describe sounds and music, especially timbre and tonal aspects. In the age of semantic descriptors work on describing music with high-level concepts, such as mood, instruments, similarities, cover versions or genres, usually inferred with machine learning from annotated collections is reported. In the age of context-aware systems we report on user models for recommendation and for avatar generation, in addition to factors that influence music listening decisions. We finally discuss the possibility of a more recent age of creative systems where MIR features, classifiers, models and evaluation methodologies aid to enhance or expand music creation.