Super MBox: an efficient/effective content-based music retrieval system

ABSTRACT

This demo presents an implementation of a content-based music retrieval system that can take a user's acoustic input (8-second clip of singing or humming) via a microphone and then retrieve the intended song from a database containing 13,000 candidate songs. The system, known as Super MBox, demonstrates the feasibility of real-time music retrieval with a high recognition rate, which can be used for music search engines over the Internet and/or query engines in digital music libraries or karaoke machines.

REFERENCES

• 1: Jag, J.-S. Roger and Gao, Ming-Yang "A Query-by- Singing System based on Dynamic Programming", International Workshop on Intelligent Systms Resolutions (the 8th Bellman Continuum), PP. 85.89, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Dee 2000.
• 2: Jyh-Shing Roger Jang , Hong-Ru Lee, Hierarchical filtering method for content-based music retrieval via acoustic input, Proceedings of the ninth ACM international conference on Multimedia, September 30-October 05, 2001, Ottawa, Canada [doi>10.1145/500141.500201]
• 3: Jyh-Shing Roger Jang , Hong-Ru Lee , Chia-Hui Yeh, Query by Tapping: A New Paradigm for Content-Based Music Retrieval from Acoustic Input, Proceedings of the Second IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia: Advances in Multimedia Information Processing, p.590-597, October 24-26, 2001
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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.3 Information Search and Retrieval
          Subjects: Retrieval models

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.2 DATABASE MANAGEMENT
      H.2.4 Systems
          Subjects: Multimedia databases
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.5 Sound and Music Computing
          Subjects: Modeling

General Terms:
Design, Experimentation, Performance

Keywords:
audio signal processing, content-based music retrieval, dynamic time warping, melody retrieval, query by humming, query by singing, query by tapping