The need for music information retrieval with user-centered and multimodal strategies
Cynthia C. S. Liem, Meinard Müller, Douglas Eck, George Tzanetakis, Alan Hanjalić · 2011
Music is a widely enjoyed content type, existing in many multifaceted representations. With the digital information age, a lot of digitized music information has theoretically become available at the user's fingertips. However, the abundance of information is too large-scaled and too diverse to annotate, oversee and present in a consistent and human manner, motivating the development of automated Music Information Retrieval (Music-IR) techniques.