TANSEN: A QUERY-BY-HUMMING BASED MUSIC RETRIEVAL SYSTEM
M. Anand Raju, Bharat Sundaram, Preeti Rao · 2003
Music information retrieval is a field of rapidly growing commercial interest. This paper describes TANSEN, a query-by-humming based music retrieval system under development at IIT, Bombay. Named after the legendary musician (and a tenuous acronym for “TA-Note Song ExtractorNavigator), the system is designed to accept acoustic queries in the form of sung fragments, to search a database of Indian film songs. Algorithms for the extraction of melody from the query signal, and pattern matching for search and retrieval from the database are presented. The user interface is described, and experimental results obtained on a prototype version are reported.