BUILDING A MELODY RETRIEVAL SYSTEM
M. Anand Raju, Preeti Rao · 2002
This paper describes some early attempts at developing a music indexing and retrieval system based on melody, or tune, of songs. In the envisaged system, the “query”, a song fragment whistled or sung by the user into a microphone, is used to search a database of soundtracks to find the entry that is best matched to it in tune. The challenging issues that this project raises are described. Signal processing tools suitable for melody detection are presented, and finally some experimentally obtained results are discussed.