A WWW-based melody retrieval system
Tomonari Sonoda, Masataka Goto, Yoichi Muraoka · 1998
ABSTRACT: This paper describes a WWW-based melody retrieval system which takes a sung melody as a query and retrieves the song’s title from a music database. In previous works, the pitch information was mainly used as a search clue while the span information was not used effectively, and it was difficult to improve the matching accuracy by using only the pitch information. We therefore propose the following two methods for effective matching: a method for obtaining search clues with the maximum quantity of information from pitch and span and a method for effectively reducing the number of answer candidates. 1